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cladium

cladium noun: a branch in a colony of graptolites.

Noun

cladium (plural cladia)

  1. A branch in a colony of graptolites.
    • When well preserved the polypary often shows graceful curvature of the stipe, and the cladium is the exact counterpart of the termination of the stipe, the curvature being equal in amount, but opposite in direction.1914, Monograph of the Palaeontographical Society, page 509
    • Of the eighteen thecæ of the proximal type thirteen are usually developed before the cladium is given off. The proximal end is straight and never enrolled, though from the frequency with which specimens are broken about midway between the sicula and the cladium, it is possible that the whole did...1918, Gertrude Lilian Elles, Mrs. Ethel M. R. (Wood) Shakespear, Charles Lapworth, A Monograph of British Graptolites - Part 1, page 509

Examples of cladium in a sentence

  • Of the eighteen thecæ of the proximal type thirteen are usually developed before the cladium is given off.1918, Gertrude Lilian Elles, Mrs. Ethel M. R. (Wood) Shakespear, Charles Lapworth, A Monograph of British Graptolites - Part 1, page 509:
  • Several stages in the development of a cladium, showing the secondary nema as the leading rod of the cladial stipe (based on Bulman 1970a, Fig. 65).2017, Jörg Maletz, Graptolite Paleobiology, page 36:

Forms of cladium

pluralcladia

Words formed from cladium

Questions about cladium

What does cladium mean?
Cladium means a branch in a colony of graptolites.
How do you use cladium in a sentence?
Of the eighteen thecæ of the proximal type thirteen are usually developed before the cladium is given off.
What part of speech is cladium?
Cladium is a noun.
What is the plural of cladium?
The plural of cladium is cladia.

Words near cladium in the dictionary

  1. cladistic
  2. cladistical
  3. cladistically
  4. cladistics
  5. cladists
  6. cladium
  7. cladly dressed
  8. clado-
  9. cladobranch
  10. cladobranchs
  11. cladocarpic

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