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cephalodia

cephalodia is the plural of cephalodium.

Meaning of cephalodium

Noun

cephalodium (plural cephalodia)

  1. A small gall-like structure found in some lichens that contain cyanobacterial symbionts.
    • The Nostocoid type consists of small rounded blue-green cells not over 5p. in diameter and arranged in chains which are often much broken up in the cephalodium, so that the concatenate arrangement is hardly apparent.1947, Ivan Mackenzie Lamb, A monograph of the lichen genus Placopsis Nyl, page 166

Questions about cephalodia

What is cephalodia the plural of?
Cephalodia is the plural of cephalodium.

Words near cephalodia in the dictionary

  1. cephalochordates
  2. cephalochromin
  3. cephalococcygeal
  4. cephalocondylic
  5. cephalodactyly
  6. cephalodia
  7. cephalodial
  8. cephalodine
  9. cephalodium
  10. cephalodynia
  11. cephalodynias

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