Definitions for desmids

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desmids des·mid

Spelling: [dez-mid]

IPA: /ˈdɛz mɪd/

Desmids is a 7 letter English word. It's valid Scrabble word worth 10 points. It's valid Words with friends word worth 11 points.

You can make 106 anagrams from letters in desmids (ddeimss).

Definitions for desmids

noun

1. any single-celled freshwater algae of the family Desmidiaceae, characterized by a division of the body into mirror-image halves joined by a bridge containing the nucleus, and having a spiny or bristly exterior: sometimes forming into colonies or branching filaments.

Origin of desmids

1860-65; New Latin Desmidium a genus of the family Greek desm(ós) a band, chain (compare deîn to fasten) + New Latin -idium -idium

Examples for desmids

The desmid has a coat of cellulose, and a less graceful coat of cellulose encloses the Peridinean.