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Gonidium

[guh-nid-ee-uhm]

go·nid·i·um

[guh-nid-ee-uhm]
noun, plural -nid·i·a [-nid-ee-uh] .
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:
1835–45; < Neo-Latin, equivalent to gon- gon- + -idium noun suffix

go·nid·i·al, go·nid·ic, adjective
go·nid·i·oid, adjective
in·ter·go·nid·i·al, adjective
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gonidium (ɡəˈnɪdɪəm)
 
n , pl -ia
1.  a green algal cell in the thallus of a lichen
2.  an asexual reproductive cell in some colonial algae
 
[C19: from New Latin, diminutive from gono-]
 
go'nidial
 
adj
 
go'nidic
 
adj

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gonidium   (gō-nĭd'ē-əm)  Pronunciation Key 
Plural gonidia
  1. An asexual reproductive cell found in certain algae that form colonies. Gonidia undergo repeated mitoses to form new colonies, which then hatch out of the parent colonies.

  2. A chlorophyll-bearing, photosynthetic algal cell housed in the thallus of a lichen.


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