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cephalodium

cephalodium noun: a small gall-like structure found in some lichens that contain cyanobacterial symbionts.

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

Forms of cephalodium

pluralcephalodia

Words formed from cephalodium

Questions about cephalodium

What does cephalodium mean?
Cephalodium means a small gall-like structure found in some lichens that contain cyanobacterial symbionts.
What part of speech is cephalodium?
Cephalodium is a noun.
What is the plural of cephalodium?
The plural of cephalodium is cephalodia.

Words near cephalodium in the dictionary

  1. cephalocondylic
  2. cephalodactyly
  3. cephalodia
  4. cephalodial
  5. cephalodine
  6. cephalodium
  7. cephalodynia
  8. cephalodynias
  9. cephalofacial
  10. cephalofoil
  11. cephalofoils

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