Definition of Soredium

1. n. A patch of granular bodies on the surface of the thallus of lichens.

Definition of Soredium

1. Noun. (mycology) A scalelike structure of algal cells in a lichen, enveloped in a network of hyphae and capable of independent vegetative growth. ¹

¹ Source: wiktionary.com

Definition of Soredium

1. a reproductive body in lichens [n SOREDIA]

Medical Definition of Soredium

1. A patch of granular bodies on the surface of the thallus of lichens. Source: Websters Dictionary (01 Mar 1998)

Lexicographical Neighbors of Soredium

sore-eyed
sore-loser
sore-winner
sore loser
sore losers
sore point
sore shins
sore throat
sore throats
sore winner
sored
soredia
soredial
sorediate
sorediiferous
soredium (current term)
soree
sorees
sorehead
soreheaded
soreheads
sorehon
sorehons
sorel
sorell
sorells
sorels
sorely
sorema
soremouth

Literary usage of Soredium

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

1. Text-book of Botany, Morphological and Physiological by Julius Sachs (1882)
"... of Usnea barbata; Aa simple soredium, consisting of a ... ca young thallus formed from a soredium (after Schwendener, X 500). closely to them and form ..."

2. The Natural History of Plants: Their Forms, Growth, Reproduction, and by Anton Kerner von Marilaun, Francis Wall Oliver, Mary Frances (Ewart) Macdonald, Marian (Balfour) Busk (1895)
"To the naked eye a single soredium is only visible as a bright dot, ... If, then, a soredium thus removed comes to rest in the crack of a rock or on any ..."

3. The Natural History of Plants: Their Forms, Growth, Reproduction, and by Anton Kerner von Marilaun (1902)
"To the naked eye a single soredium is only visible as a bright dot, ... If, then, a soredium thus removed comes to rest in the crack of a rock or on any ..."

4. A Textbook of Botany for Colleges and Universities by John Merle Coulter, Charles Reid Barnes, Henry Chandler Cowles (1911)
"... a the most efficient means of repro- simple soredium, consisting of an ... 1115, a soredium in which the algal the fungal spores are of value only of ..."

5. A Textbook of Botany for Colleges and Universities by John Merle Coulter, Charles Reid Barnes, Henry Chandler Cowles (1911)
"808), forming, perhaps, beard lichen (Usnea barbata): 1114. a the most efficient means of repro- simple soredium consisting of an algal ..."

6. Reports on the Progress of Zoology and Botany, 1841, 1842 by Ray Society, Heinrich Friedrich Link (1845)
"The soredium is, therefore, nothing more than the contents of the mother cell, ... Such a soredium is represented in the third volume of the Icon. Sel. ..."

7. A Glossary of Botanic Terms, with Their Derivation and Accent by Benjamin Daydon Jackson (1905)
"... a brood-bud ; sore'dial, pertaining to a soredium ; ~ Branch, a branch produced by development of a soredium into a new thallus, while still attached to ..."

8. Biological Lectures Delivered at the Marine Biological Laboratory of Wood's (1894)
"The single soredium is a miniature lichen, consisting of one or more algal cells ... The algal and fungal elements in a single soredium are derived from the ..."

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