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Definition of Gonidium
1. n. A special groove or furrow at one or both angles of the mouth of many Anthozoa.
2. n. A component cell of the yellowish green layer in certain lichens.
Definition of Gonidium
1. Noun. (biology) A photosynthetic algal cell in the thallus of a lichen; a similar asexual reproductive cell in some algae ¹
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Definition of Gonidium
1. an asexual reproductive cell [n -IA] : GONIDIAL, GONIDIC [adj]
Medical Definition of Gonidium
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Lexicographical Neighbors of Gonidium
Literary usage of Gonidium
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. The Century Dictionary: An Encyclopedic Lexicon of the English Language by William Dwight Whitney (1889)
"Pertaining to, of the nature of, or containing a gonidium: as, ... cell that is
smaller than a gonidium proper, and intermediate between a ..."
2. The Micrographic Dictionary: A Guide to the Examination and Investigation of by John William Griffith, Arthur Henfrey (1883)
"End of the filament from which the gonidium has escaped. Magnified 50 diameters.
After swimming about for some time, from one to several hours (usually ..."
3. Proceedings of the California Academy of Sciences, 4th Series by California academy of sciences (1897)
"gonidium, in a section, showing haustorium and the hyphal cell of trated by ...
gonidium, in a section, entirely emptied by haustorium and by investing ..."
4. Annals and Magazine of Natural History by William Jardine (1855)
"... if we add the length of the gonidium to the one which floats behind, ...
by lying in contact with or underneath the body of the gonidium ; both also ..."
5. Text-book of Botany, Morphological and Physical by Julius Sachs (1882)
"... in which the gonidium has multiplied by division ; Ca group of simple ...
h in all cases is the hypha of the Fungus, and g the gonidium. ..."
6. Handbook of Practical Botany for the Botanical Laboratory and Private Student by Eduard Strasburger, William Hillhouse (1900)
"If it contains but one gonidium, it is in a fit state for use for the ... A drop
of the culture fluid must then be laid on the gonidium, the slide then laid ..."
7. Lens by State Microscopical Society of Illinois (1872)
"A pin-point Monad in its transformation to Euglena: a, gonidium ; I, oval cell
with vacuole ; c, Euglena; d, with filament; e, ..."
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