isidium

English

Etymology

According to OED, from a genus name Isidium (Acharius 1798), itself from the goddess Isis.

Noun

isidium (plural isidia)

1. (lichenology) A vegetative reproductive structure present in some lichens; an outgrowth of the thallus surface, usually with a columnar structure, and consisting of both fungal hyphae and algal cells.

Hypernyms

• propagule

Coordinate terms

• soredium

Derived terms

• isidiate

 

Translations

reproductive structure

• Dutch: isidium n

References

“isidium, n.”, in OED Online ⁠, Oxford: Oxford University Press, launched 2000.

Further reading

• isidium on Wikipedia.Wikipedia

Dutch

Etymology

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Noun

isidium n (plural isidiën)

1. isidium

Derived terms

• isidieus

 

Further reading

• isidium on the Dutch Wikipedia.Wikipedia ^nl