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Definition of Gonidial
1. a. Pertaining to, or containing, gonidia.
2. a. Of or pertaining to the angles of the mouth; as, a gonidial groove of an actinian.
Definition of Gonidial
1. Adjective. (zoology) Of or pertaining to the angles of the mouth. ¹
¹ Source: wiktionary.com
Definition of Gonidial
1. gonidium [adj] - See also: gonidium
Medical Definition of Gonidial
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Lexicographical Neighbors of Gonidial
Literary usage of Gonidial
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. The Encyclopaedia Britannica: A Dictionary of Arts, Sciences, and General by Thomas Spencer Baynes (1888)
"—Thallus crustaceous, rarely evanescent or obsolete; gonidial stratum consisting of
... evanescent or none proper, with the gonidial stratum consisting of ..."
2. Proceedings of the California Academy of Sciences, 4th Series by California academy of sciences (1897)
"An invested gonidial cell dividing into four, x 560. Fig. 8. ... A gonidial cell
containing a haustorium ; the protoplast contracting and thereby escaping ..."
3. The Century Dictionary: An Encyclopedic Lexicon of the English Language by William Dwight Whitney (1889)
"The spores produced from the ostensible fructification in this Class are all
non-sexual or gonidial. WB Carpenter, Micros., § 318. ..."
4. Annals and Magazine of Natural History by William Jardine (1855)
"But many of the gonidial cells are too small to contain the circular disk, ...
As the smallest of the gonidial cells, which may appear in the internode, ..."
5. The English Cyclopaedia by Charles Knight (1870)
"Mouth not raised on a cone ; stomach not habitually protruded ; gonidial tubercles
... Mouth of the ordinary form, with no prominent gonidial "development. ..."
6. The American Naturalist by American Society of Naturalists, Essex Institute (1900)
"In this way new generations of gonidial cells are produced which continue the
race in the lichen body and thereby prevent the fungus from devouring all at ..."
7. A Student's Text-book of Zoology by Adam Sedgwick, Joseph Jackson Lister, Arthur Everett Shipley (1898)
"The mouth is usually slit-like, and the oesophagus has two gonidial grooves ...
Hf the chambers between tho directive mesenteries; R gonidial grooves. the ..."
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