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thallodic

thallodic adjective: resembling or having the character of a thallus.

Adjective

thallodic (comparative more thallodic, superlative most thallodic)

  1. Resembling or having the character of a thallus.
    • The 'thallodic' margin of the apothecia which is characteristic of many genera and contains Algae (see Figs. 86, 87, 89) belongs, as the name rightly expresses, to the thallus and not to the apothecium.1887, [Heinrich] A[nton] de Bary, chapter VII. Phenomena of Vegetation, in Henry E. F. Garnsey, transl., edited by Isaac Bayley Balfour, Comparative Morphology and Biology of the Fungi, Mycetozoa and...

Synonyms of thallodic

Forms of thallodic

comparativemore thallodic
superlativemost thallodic

Origin of thallodic

From thallus + -ode + -ic.

Questions about thallodic

What does thallodic mean?
Thallodic means resembling or having the character of a thallus.
What part of speech is thallodic?
Thallodic is an adjective.

Words near thallodic in the dictionary

  1. thalloan
  2. thalloconidia
  3. thalloconidial
  4. thalloconidium
  5. thallodal
  6. thallodic
  7. thallogen
  8. thallogenous
  9. thallogens
  10. thalloid
  11. thalloidal

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