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rhabdiferous

rhabdiferous adjective: being a type of sponge cell with many rodlike inclusions and secreting mucopolysaccharide.

Adjective

rhabdiferous (not comparable)

  1. Being a type of sponge cell with many rodlike inclusions and secreting mucopolysaccharide.
    • As Huxley had concluded, the choanocytes derived from the original sponge tissue, as did the collencytes. The glandular and rhabdiferous cells, on the other hand, derived from the archeocytes.1971, C. Vago, Invertebrate Tissue Culture, page 391
    • So far no indisputable function has been ascribed to any of the following cell types except rhabdiferous cells.1978, Patricia R. Bergquist, Sponges, page 70

Origin of rhabdiferous

From rhabd-, from Ancient Greek ῥάβδος (rhábdos, “rod”) + -iferous.

Questions about rhabdiferous

What does rhabdiferous mean?
Rhabdiferous means being a type of sponge cell with many rodlike inclusions and secreting mucopolysaccharide.
What part of speech is rhabdiferous?
Rhabdiferous is an adjective.

Words near rhabdiferous in the dictionary

  1. rhabarbic acid
  2. rhabd
  3. rhabd-
  4. rhabdi
  5. rhabdic
  6. rhabdiferous
  7. rhabdite
  8. rhabdites
  9. rhabditic
  10. rhabditid
  11. rhabditids

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