Definition of Phylloids

1. phylloid [n] - See also: phylloid

Lexicographical Neighbors of Phylloids

phyllocyanin
phyllocyanine
phyllocyst
phyllocysts
phyllode
phyllodes
phyllodes tumour
phyllodia
phyllodial
phyllodies
phyllodineous
phyllodium
phyllodulcin
phyllody
phylloid
phylloids (current term)
phyllolepid
phyllolepids
phyllomania
phyllome
phyllomes
phyllomic
phyllomorphosis
phyllophagan
phyllophagous
phyllophorous
phyllopod
phyllopoda
phyllopodous
phyllopods

Literary usage of Phylloids

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

1. The Origin of a Land Flora: A Theory Based Upon the Facts of Alternation by Frederick Orpen Bower (1908)
"... on which the "phylloids" have become abortive. All such hypotheses have critical points in their application ; in the present case it lies in the ..."

2. Mineral Physiology and Physiography: A Second Series of Chemical and by Thomas Sterry Hunt (1891)
"The presence or absence of •water in phylloids cannot form the ground of a distinction in classification among phylloids any more than in ada- ..."

3. Science by American Association for the Advancement of Science (1904)
"... on the sporophyte and 'phylloids' on the gametophyte, as indeed I suggested some years ago. Nevertheless, these again are not phyletic unities; ..."

4. Text-book of Botany: Morphological and Physiological by Julius Sachs (1875)
"... the leaf-like appendages might be termed phylloids, the root-like appendages Rhizoids. The Branching al the growing end of the thallus of Algae may be ..."

5. History and Uses of Limestones and Marbles by Sarah Maria Burnham (1883)
"... phylloids of the Devonian age have been found six or seven inches across the top. These fossils, abundant in the ..."

6. History and Uses of Limestones and Marbles by Sarah Maria Burnham (1883)
"... phylloids of the Devonian age have been found six or seven inches across the top. These fossils, abundant in the ..."

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