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from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.

  • noun A stalklike outgrowth of the thallus of certain lichens, bearing the apothecium.

from The Century Dictionary.

  • noun In botany, in certain lichens, the shrubby or stalk-like outgrowth of the thallus, bearing exposed hymenia; also, any stalk-like elevation. See cuts under Cladonia.

from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.

  • noun (Bot.) A stalk which bears the fructification in some lichens, as in the so-called reindeer moss.

from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.

  • noun A stalk which bears the fructification in some lichens, such as the reindeer moss.

from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.

  • noun an organ or body resembling a stalk; especially the outgrowth of the thallus of certain lichens on which the ascocarp is borne

Etymologies

from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 4th Edition

[New Latin, from Greek pous, pod-, foot; see –pod.]

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New Latin, from Ancient Greek foot.

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