Definition of Gonium

1. an immature reproductive cell [n -NIA]

Lexicographical Neighbors of Gonium

goniometre ocular
goniometric
goniometries
goniometry
gonion
goniophotometre
goniorhynchid
goniorhynchids
gonioscope
gonioscopes
gonioscopy
goniosynechia
gonitis
gonium (current term)
gonk
gonks
gonna
gonnabe
gonnabes
gonnardite
gonnegtion
gonnegtions
gonno
gono-opsonin
gonoblastid
gonoblastidia
gonoblastidium
gonocalyx

Literary usage of Gonium

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

1. Animals: A Text-book of Zoology by David Starr Jordan, Vernon Lyman Kellogg, Harold Heath (1905)
"gonium.—If, when one of the simplest animals divided to form two daughter cells, these two cells did not move apart, but remained side by side and each ..."

2. Edinburgh Medical and Surgical Journal (1842)
"ler's genus gonium, the genus of all others to which SARCINA has the greatest affinity. The genus gonium consistsof composite ..."

3. The Protozoa by Gary Nathan Calkins (1901)
"gonium perforate O. ¥. M., in division. ... not into sixteen parts for a new colony, but as in gonium into eight gametes, which ultimately become free, ..."

4. The Laws of Life: Principles of Evolution, Heredity and Eugenics. A Popular by William Marion Goldsmith (1922)
"... PROTOZOA AND METAZOA Introduction—Colonial Protozoa—gonium—Volvox—Lower Invertebrates—Porifera—Coelenterata—Hydra—Sexual and Asexual Generations—Sea ..."

5. The Carolina Medical Journal (1879)
"(a 5) A section of a cutting through the sperma- gonium layer. (a) Hyphen. (b) Hymenium with spermatic or st,jlc-spores. (c) Spermatic. ..."

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