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Definition of Haustorium

1. Noun. A root-like attachment in parasitic plants that penetrates and obtains food from the host.

Definition of Haustorium

1. n. One of the suckerlike rootlets of such plants as the dodder and ivy.

Definition of Haustorium

1. Noun. A root of a parasitic plant modified to take nourishment from its host. ¹

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Definition of Haustorium

1. [n -RIA]

Medical Definition of Haustorium

1. A projection from a cell or tissue of a fungus or higher plant, that penetrates another plant and absorbs nutrients from it. In fungi it is a hyphal projection that penetrates into the cytoplasm of a host plant cell, in parasitic angiosperms, it is a modified root. This entry appears with permission from the Dictionary of Cell and Molecular Biology (11 Mar 2008)

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Literary usage of Haustorium

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

1. Guide to the Materials for American History in Roman and Other Italian Archives by Carl Russell Fish (1911)
"THE haustorium. The haustorium consists of two portions, a part exterior to the host, the haustorial cushion, and a part within the host, which corresponds ..."

2. The Indian Forester (1905)
"It is usual, when studying the tissues of the haustorium affixed to a root, to pay special attention to the section passing through the length of the ..."

3. Proceedings of the California Academy of Sciences, 4th Series by California academy of sciences (1897)
"... cell containing a haustorium ; the protoplast contracting and thereby escaping from the haustorium. x 560. Fig. io. Similar to fig. 9*. x 560. Fig. ii. ..."

4. Contributions from the Botanical Laboratory of the University of Pennsylvania by University of Pennsylvania Botanical Laboratory, University of Pennsylvania, Botanical Laboratory (1904)
"The up-going main column of the haustorium repeats the condition of the lower ... The haustorium is always surrounded by several rows of simple flattened ..."

5. Proceedings of the Cambridge Philosophical Society by Cambridge Philosophical Society (1908)
"When entrance has been effected, a portion of the haustorium, the sucker, is thrust into ... The course taken by the vascular strand in the haustorium is ..."

6. The Encyclopaedia Britannica: A Dictionary of Arts, Sciences, and General by Thomas Spencer Baynes (1888)
"From the papilla then proceeds the trae haustorium, which penetrates the ... The haustorium is furnished with a central vascular bundle originating in the ..."

7. The Plant World by Plant World Association, Wild Flower Preservation Society (U.S.) (1916)
"The outline drawings which accompanied Longo's paper did not make the nature of the haustorium clear in support of his statement, but for a number of ..."

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