Definition of Gonidia

1. Noun. (plural of gonidium) ¹

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Definition of Gonidia

1. gonidium [n] - See also: gonidium

Lexicographical Neighbors of Gonidia

gongoozle
gongoozled
gongoozler
gongoozlers
gongoozles
gongoozling
gongoristic
gongs
gongster
gongsters
gongylonaemiasis
gonia
gonial
goniatite
goniatites
gonidia (current term)
gonidial
gonidic
gonif
goniff
goniffs
gonifs
gonimia
gonimium
gonimous
gonio-
goniocraniometry
goniodysgenesis
goniolatry

Literary usage of Gonidia

Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:

1. A Manual of determinative bacteriology by Frederick Dixon Chester (1901)
"THE FORMATION OF gonidia In the higher bacteria, as in Mycobacteriaceae, the cells or filaments may undergo multiple segmentation, resulting in the ..."

2. Elementary Botany by George Francis Atkinson (1898)
"Some of the gonidia (often called spores) may be sown in nutrient gelatine ... Form of the gonidia.—It will be instructive if we first examine some of the ..."

3. Annals and Magazine of Natural History by William Jardine (1855)
"I. — Observations on the Development of gonidia (?) from the Cell-contents of the Characeae, and on the Circulation of the ..."

4. Outlines of Bacteriology (technical and Agricultural) by David Ellis (1909)
"Cornelia- and gonidia-Formation. Among the higher bacteria ... There are two kinds, called respectively conidia and gonidia. Both differ from endospores in ..."

5. Genera Lichenum: An Arrangement of the North American Lichens by Edward Tuckerman (1872)
"... content of these central cells is attributable to chlorophyll, as the cells therefore are describable as a kind of gonidia (De Bary 1. cp 270. Schwend. ..."

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