anthodium

an·tho·di·um

[an-thoh-dee-uhm]
noun, plural an·tho·di·a [an-thoh-dee-uh] . Botany.
a flower head or capitulum, especially the head of a composite plant.

Origin:
1855–60; < Neo-Latin < Greek anthṓd(ēs) flowerlike (ánth(os) a flower + -ōdēs -ode1) + Latin -ium -ium

Dictionary.com Unabridged
Based on the Random House Dictionary, © Random House, Inc. 2013.
Cite This Source Link To anthodium
Collins
World English Dictionary
anthodium (ænˈθəʊdɪəm) [Click for IPA pronunciation guide]
 
n , pl -dia
botany another name for capitulum
 
[C19: from New Latin, from Greek anthōdēs flower-like, from anthos flower + -ōdēs-oid]

Collins English Dictionary - Complete & Unabridged 10th Edition
2009 © William Collins Sons & Co. Ltd. 1979, 1986 © HarperCollins
Publishers 1998, 2000, 2003, 2005, 2006, 2007, 2009
Cite This Source
00:10
Anthodium is always a great word to know.
So is quincunx. Does it mean:
a printed punctuation mark (‽), available only in some typefaces, designed to combine the question mark (?) and the exclamation point (!), indicating a mixture of query and interjection, as after a rhetorical question.
an arrangement of five objects, as trees, in a square or rectangle, one at each corner and one in the middle.
Copyright © 2013 Dictionary.com, LLC. All rights reserved.
  • Please Login or Sign Up to use the Recent Searches feature
FAVORITES
RECENT