Definitions
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.
- noun A hairlike terminal process forming the receptive part of the female reproductive structure in certain fungi and algae.
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun In botany, a long thin hair-like sac springing from the trichophoric part of the procarp of certain cryptogams, and serving as a receptive organ of reproduction. See procarp, Florideæ.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- noun (Bot.) The slender, hairlike cell which receives the fertilizing particles, or antherozoids, in red seaweeds.
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- noun botany The slender,
hair -likecell which receives thefertilizing particles , orantherozoids , inred seaweeds .
Etymologies
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One of the latter divides next into an upper and a lower cell, the former growing out into a long, colorless appendage known as a trichogyne (Fig. 29, _D_, _tr.
Elements of Structural and Systematic Botany For High Schools and Elementary College Courses Douglas Houghton Campbell
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In Dudresnaya, on the other hand, the spermatozoid coalesces indeed with the trichogyne, but this does not develop further.
Scientific American Supplement, No. 531, March 6, 1886 Various
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From below the trichogyne, however, spring several branches, which run to the ends of adjacent branches, with the apical cells of which they conjugate, and the result of this conjugation is the development of a cystocarp similar to that of Coleochæte.
Scientific American Supplement, No. 531, March 6, 1886 Various
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In Coleochæte, the male cell is a round spermatozoid, and the female cell an oosphere contained in the base of a cell which is elongated into an open and hair-like tube called the trichogyne.
Scientific American Supplement, No. 531, March 6, 1886 Various
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Occasionally one of these spermatozoids may be found attached to the trichogyne, and in this way fertilization is effected.
Elements of Structural and Systematic Botany For High Schools and Elementary College Courses Douglas Houghton Campbell
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_D_ I, II young procarps. _tr. _ trichogyne. iii, young; iv, ripe spore fruit.
Elements of Structural and Systematic Botany For High Schools and Elementary College Courses Douglas Houghton Campbell
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a wall, becomes surrounded with a covering of cells called a cystocarp, which springs from cells below the trichogyne, and after the whole structure falls from the parent plant, spores are developed from the oospore, and from them arises a new generation.
Scientific American Supplement, No. 531, March 6, 1886 Various
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