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Definition of Gonidia
1. gonidium [n] - See also: gonidium
Lexicographical Neighbors of Gonidia
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. ..."