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anthoid

anthoid adjective: resembling a flower.

Adjective

anthoid (not comparable)

  1. Resembling a flower.
    • The fructification of the spores is effected by the turbid fluid which proceeds from the apertures of the anthoid organs, and flows over the surface of the fronds.1839, Franz Julius Ferdinand Meyen, A report on the progress of vegetable physiology during the year 1837
    • Most Naturalists are now disposed to separate from the true Polypina the Bryozoa, or so-called Ciliobrachiate Polypes, which, though presenting a considerable resemblance to the Polypes in their external anthoid appearance, yet approach much more nearly to the Tunicated Acephalous Mollusca by their...1859, Robert Bentley Todd, The Cyclopædia of Anatomy and Physiology, volume 5, Ovum, page 17

Noun

anthoid (plural anthoids)

  1. A flower or, more commonly, a floret that has the simplest, most basic type of structure.
    • The functional reproductive units are either rather simple anthoids (as found in e.g., all or nearly all monocotyledons, and in amentiferous and most of the other monochlamydeous forms) or more intricately organised holanthocormoids (almost always, if not exclusively, zoophilous).1979, Koninklijke Nederlandse Akademie van Wetenschappen, Proceedings: Biological and medical sciences. Series C, page 350
    • The assumption that in holanthocormous flowers the gonoclad bracts provided the sepaloid elements and the monandra the semaphyllous (petaloid) ones, whereas in anthoids only merandrial perianth members (tepals) can be present (each gonoclad bract remaining a bract subtending the anthoid), is in...1986, A. D. J. Meeuse, Anatomy of Morphology, page 47

anthoid meaning in Tamil and Urdu

anthoid in Tamil

பூவடிவான, பூப்போன்ற

anthoid in Urdu

پھول جیسا, پھول نما, پھول کی شکل کا

Forms of anthoid

pluralanthoids

Origin of anthoid

From antho- + -oid.

Words that rhyme with anthoid

Questions about anthoid

What does anthoid mean?
Anthoid means resembling a flower.
What is anthoid in Tamil?
Anthoid in Tamil is பூவடிவான, பூப்போன்ற. See Anthoid meaning in Tamil.
What part of speech is anthoid?
Anthoid can be an adjective or a noun.

Words near anthoid in the dictionary

  1. anthoecium
  2. anthoecology
  3. anthogenesis
  4. anthographies
  5. anthography
  6. anthoid
  7. anthoids
  8. anthoinite
  9. anthokyan
  10. antholatry
  11. anthole

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