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Definition of Hormogonia
1. hormogonium [n] - See also: hormogonium
Lexicographical Neighbors of Hormogonia
Literary usage of Hormogonia
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. An Introduction to the Study of Seaweeds by George Robert Milne Murray (1895)
"In some cases the production of hormogonia terminates the existence of ...
The hormogonia escape by sliding towards the opening at the end of the sheath. ..."
2. A Student's Text-book of Botany by Sydney Howard Vines (1896)
"Filamentous; filaments with heterocysts, without distinction of base and apex,
wavy, unbranched ; growth intercalary; re production by hormogonia and spores ..."
3. A Textbook of Botany for Colleges and Universities by John Merle Coulter, Charles Reid Barnes, Henry Chandler Cowles (1910)
"It has been observed that when colonization occurs, the heterocysts anchor the
filament, and that the hormogonia break loose from them and wriggle out ..."
4. Outlines of Botany for the High School Laboratory and Classroom by Robert Greenleaf Leavitt, Charles Herbert Clark, Mrs. Sophia M'Ilvaine (Bledsoe) Herrick, Asa Gray (1901)
"New filaments arise from short portions (hormogonia) with rounded ends (Fig. ...
Oscillatoria: a, part of a filament showing hormogonia (A, h) ; c, ..."
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