Definition of Hapteron

1. a plant's organ of attachment [n -S]

Medical Definition of Hapteron

1. A holdfast, a specialised root-like projection that functions to anchor a plant. (09 Oct 1997)

Lexicographical Neighbors of Hapteron

happying
happyness
haps
hapten
hapten inhibition of precipitation
haptene
haptenes
haptenic
haptenic inhibition
haptenization
haptenize
haptenized
haptenizes
haptenizing
haptens
hapteron (current term)
hapterons
haptic
haptic hallucination
haptic interface
haptic interfaces
haptic sensation
haptical
haptically
hapticity
haptics
hapto-
haptodysphoria
haptoglobin
haptoglobins

Literary usage of Hapteron

Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:

1. Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine (1835)
"... of Louis XIV. whilst he wrote bis r.hapteron great men.and Moliere writing pieces of severe criticism on the court, which were acted before courtiers. ..."

2. A Glossary of Botanic Terms, with Their Derivation and Accent by Benjamin Daydon Jackson (1905)
"... given by Heinig as "turning black"; a'trous, dead black (Heinig). Attach'meut disc, the holdfast or basal hapteron of an Alga. atyp'lc (a, not, ..."

3. A Treatise on the British Freshwater Algae by George Stephen West (1904)
"The filaments are of variable size, crisp, generally branched, and attached at the base by a branched hapteron. The branches are short, slightly attenuated, ..."

4. A Student's Text-book of Botany by Sydney Howard Vines (1896)
"A remarkable kind of emergence is the organ of attachment, termed a hapteron, developed on the stalks of some ..."

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