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Definition of Glochidia
1. glochidium [n] - See also: glochidium
Lexicographical Neighbors of Glochidia
Literary usage of Glochidia
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Proceedings by Zoological Society of London (1891)
"glochidia distasteful to Fish. All fish with which I have experimented, viz. ...
They frequently seize a mass of glochidia floating in the disturbed water, ..."
2. The Flora of British India by Joseph Dalton Hooker (1885)
"128 ; patently hispid, leaves oblong, «lyx-lobes oblong, nutlets separable
tubercular-scabrous on all sides with 2 rows of short stout glochidia ..."
3. A Text-book of Biology for Students in General, Medical and Technical Courses by William Martin Smallwood (1918)
"When the glochidia are set free in the water they sink to the bottom. ... As the
fins of a fish brush over the hooked glochidia they become attached to the ..."
4. The Transactions of the Microscopical Society of London by Microscopical Society of London (1862)
"On the 11th of this month I examined the fish, and found several glochidia attached
to the ends of the pectoral fins, their valves being closed upon the fin ..."
5. Cactaceœ of Northeastern and Central Mexico Together with a Synopsis of the by William Edwin Safford (1909)
"Between the glochidia and surrounded by them, and always above the spines, ...
These glochidia correspond with the bristles and wool in the axils of some ..."
6. General Zoology by Arthur Sperry Pearse (1917)
"A, adult clam giving off glochidia through excurrent siphon; A', anatomy of mature
clam; a, adductor muscle; /, foot; p, marsupium, or swollen portion of ..."
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