Definitions
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.
- noun A slender rootlike filament that grows from an alga, a fungus, or the gametophyte of a moss, liverwort, or fern, used for attachment and nourishment.
from The Century Dictionary.
- In botany and zoology, root-like; resembling a root.
- noun In botany, a filamentous organ resembling a root, but of simple structure, found on compound thalli of all kinds, and on the stems of the Muscineæ.
- noun Rhizoids are numerously produced, and their function is the attachment of the plant to the substratum. The older term was rhizina. See cut under
prothallium .
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- noun (Bot.) A rootlike appendage.
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- noun botany A
rootlike structure infungi and someplants that acts assupport and/or aids theabsorption of nutrients.
from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
- noun any of various slender filaments that function as roots in mosses and ferns and fungi etc
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Examples
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"We were really excited when we saw how similar the ultrastructure of our liverwort rhizoid walls was to images of Prototaxites tubes published in 1976 by Rudy Schmid," Graham said.
PhysOrg.com - latest science and technology news stories 2010
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"We were really excited when we saw how similar the ultrastructure of our liverwort rhizoid walls was to images of Prototaxites tubes published in 1976 by Rudy Schmid," Graham said.
PhysOrg.com - latest science and technology news stories 2010
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"We were really excited when we saw how similar the ultrastructure of our liverwort rhizoid walls was to images of Prototaxites tubes published in 1976 by Rudy Schmid," Graham said.
PhysOrg.com - latest science and technology news stories 2010
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"We were really excited when we saw how similar the ultrastructure of our liverwort rhizoid walls was to images of Prototaxites tubes published in 1976 by Rudy Schmid," Graham said.
PhysOrg.com - latest science and technology news stories 2010
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"We were really excited when we saw how similar the ultrastructure of our liverwort rhizoid walls was to images of Prototaxites tubes published in 1976 by Rudy Schmid," Graham said.
PhysOrg.com - latest science and technology news stories 2010
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"We were really excited when we saw how similar the ultrastructure of our liverwort rhizoid walls was to images of Prototaxites tubes published in 1976 by Rudy Schmid," Graham said.
PhysOrg.com - latest science and technology news stories 2010
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"We were really excited when we saw how similar the ultrastructure of our liverwort rhizoid walls was to images of Prototaxites tubes published in 1976 by Rudy Schmid," Graham said.
PhysOrg.com - latest science and technology news stories 2010
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"We were really excited when we saw how similar the ultrastructure of our liverwort rhizoid walls was to images of Prototaxites tubes published in 1976 by Rudy Schmid," Graham said.
PhysOrg.com - latest science and technology news stories 2010
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B, Part of a developed protonema. h, Creeping filament with brown walls from which the filaments of chlorophyll-containing cells (b) arise; k, young moss-plant; w, its first rhizoid.]
Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 4, Part 3 "Brescia" to "Bulgaria" Various
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-- Types of colonies: a, Filamentous; b, rhizoid; c, conglomerate; d, toruloid.] (C) ~Surface Elevation.
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