Definitions for gonidia

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gonidia go·nid·i·um

Spelling: [goh-nid-ee-uh m]

IPA: /goʊˈnɪd i əm/

Gonidia is a 7 letter English word. It's valid Scrabble word worth 12 points. It's valid Words with friends word worth 16 points.

You can make 125 anagrams from letters in gonidia (adgiino).

Definitions for gonidia

noun

1. (in algae) any one-celled asexual reproductive body, as a tetraspore or zoospore.
2. an algal cell, or a filament of an alga, growing within the thallus of a lichen.

Origin of gonidia

1835-45; New Latin, equivalent to gon- gon- + -idium noun suffix

Examples for gonidia

At free end of each sterigma is formed an oval body—a spore or "gonidium" (d), which, when ripe, is thrown off from the sterigma.

The motile force is imparted to the gonidium by dense rows of waving cilia with which it is completely surrounded.