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cavendishioid

cavendishioid adjective: resembling the woody perennial plants of the genus Cavendishia.

Adjective

cavendishioid (comparative more cavendishioid, superlative most cavendishioid)

  1. Resembling the woody perennial plants of the genus Cavendishia.
    • Lineage radiations of the core group of ericoid and cavendishioid mycorrhizal Sebacinales started probably in the Eocene, coinciding with diversification events of their hosts.2016 March 4, “Divergence Times and Phylogenetic Patterns of Sebacinales, a Highly Diverse and Widespread Fungal Lineage”, in PLOS ONE, →DOI

Forms of cavendishioid

comparativemore cavendishioid
superlativemost cavendishioid

Origin of cavendishioid

From taxonomic name Cavendishia + -oid.

Questions about cavendishioid

What does cavendishioid mean?
Cavendishioid means resembling the woody perennial plants of the genus Cavendishia.
What part of speech is cavendishioid?
Cavendishioid is an adjective.

Words near cavendishioid in the dictionary

  1. Cavendish banana
  2. Cavendish bananas
  3. Cavendishes
  4. cavendishia
  5. cavendishias
  6. cavendishioid
  7. Cavens
  8. caveogenesis
  9. caveola
  10. caveolae
  11. caveolar

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