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meconidia

meconidia is the plural of meconidium.

Meaning of meconidium

Noun

meconidium (plural meconidia)

  1. A kind of gonophore produced by hydroids of the genus Gonothyraea (Campanulariidae), having tentacles, and otherwise resembling a free medusa, but remaining attached by a pedicel.
    • These appear as sessile medusæ resting on the top of the gonangium, there being usually two or three such structures on the top of each gonangium. These meconidia are formed very much as ordinary gonophores on the blastostyle within the gonangium, appearing at first as mere hernia-like protrusions...1900, Charles Cleveland Nutting, American Hydroids: The Campanularidae and the Bonneviellidae

Questions about meconidia

What is meconidia the plural of?
Meconidia is the plural of meconidium.

Words near meconidia in the dictionary

  1. meconate
  2. meconates
  3. meconial
  4. meconic
  5. meconic acid
  6. meconidia
  7. meconidine
  8. meconidium
  9. meconin
  10. meconine
  11. meconinic acid

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