Definitions for gonidium

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gonidium go·nid·i·um

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

IPA: /goʊˈnɪd i əm/

Gonidium is a 8 letter English word. It's valid Scrabble word worth 12 points. It's valid Words with friends word worth 16 points.

You can make 160 anagrams from letters in gonidium (dgiimnou).

Definitions for gonidium

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 gonidium

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

Examples for gonidium

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

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.