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gonidiophore

gonidiophore noun: a sporophore that bears a gonidium.

Noun

gonidiophore (plural gonidiophores)

  1. A sporophore that bears a gonidium.
    • […] the gonidiophore projects into the cavity of the gonidangium as a columella […]1894, Sydney Howard Vines, A Students' Text-book of Botany, volume 1, page 287

Forms of gonidiophore

pluralgonidiophores

Questions about gonidiophore

What does gonidiophore mean?
Gonidiophore means a sporophore that bears a gonidium.
What part of speech is gonidiophore?
Gonidiophore is a noun.
What is the plural of gonidiophore?
The plural of gonidiophore is gonidiophores.

Words near gonidiophore in the dictionary

  1. gonidia
  2. gonidial
  3. gonidial layer
  4. gonidic
  5. gonidioid
  6. gonidiophore
  7. gonidiophores
  8. gonidium
  9. gonids
  10. gonif
  11. goniff

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