Definitions
American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Edition
- n. A hairlike or bristlelike outgrowth, as from the epidermis of a plant.
Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia
- n. An outgrowth from the epidermis of plants, as a hair, scale, bristle, or prickle. These may be very various in form and function, but morphologically they have a common origin.
Wiktionary
- n. botany A hair- or scale-like extension of the epidermis of a plant.
- n. biology Hairlike structures found in some microscopic organisms and algae.
- n. pathology, cell biology A row of cells formed by successive cell divisions.
GNU Webster's 1913
- n. (Bot.) A hair on the surface of leaf or stem, or any modification of a hair, as a minute scale, or star, or gland. The sporangia of ferns are believed to be of the nature of trichomes.
Etymologies
- Greek trikhōma, growth of hair, from trikhoun, to cover with hair, from thrix, trikh-, hair. (American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Edition)
Examples
“(G) lgo-1 rosette leaf trichome, which is normal shape and size.”
“Here we see a sheath, and on the inside can see a chain of cells, rod-shaped cells, that make up the trichome of a cyanobacterium.”
“I knew every structure within that tree, each vessel, each pore and trichome, the placement of each stamen, and the pathways of every drop of green blood.”
“Although in innumerable instances foliar organs move when excited, no case is known of a trichome having such [page 359] power.”
“Boxplot figures showing the median trichome density per cm2”
“It was noticeable, though, that the trichome density of”
“For each leaf, three trichome counts were taken from a central section of the lower surface, excluding the primary and secondary leaf veins.”
“While a previous study reported differences in the trichome density between”
“Conducting pair-wise comparisons, a significantly greater trichome density was found for”
“No difference in the trichome density was observed between”
Lists
These user-created lists contain the word ‘trichome’.
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Leaves
phyllodial, phyllodium, phyllodineous, leaf, lamina, petiole, stoma, cuticle, stomata, apex, vein, craspedodromous and 122 more...
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A Galimafrée of Plant Anatomy & Morph...
A hodgepodge, jumble, jambalaya, *gallimaufry, circus and tent revival of plant anatomy and morphology terms and phrases - its a big tent, and no tickets are required.
*array, collecti...naked bud, leaf blade, brochidodromous, serrate, cork cambium, rhizomatous, flower stalk, deciduous sepal, petal, whorl, nectar gland, stamen and 1348 more...
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sufficient & combinatory
nomad, dyad, monad, triad, olympiad, iliad, syriac, lollard, rhizome, trichome, pathogen
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Of Ants and Men
While reading Orwell's non-fiction, I ran across his 68 year-old review of this book, which by focusing on the most lurid aspects piqued my interest, and so I checked it out of my library.
myrmecology, scoliid, stirp, huntress, ingluvial, social stomach, annectent, mycelium, formicary, hypha, fungus garden, hypogeic and 20 more...
Tweets
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yarb Some of the little parasitic queens, indeed, are actually provided with tufts of long hairs or "trichomes," which are apparently saturated with attractive ethereal materials highly prized by the host workers, which spend much of their time licking these trichomes and tending the bearers of them.
- Caryl P. Haskins, Of Ants and Men, 1939, p. 113 Dec 11, 2008