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Definition of Haustoria
1. haustorium [n] - See also: haustorium
Lexicographical Neighbors of Haustoria
Literary usage of Haustoria
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Organography of Plants, Especially of the Archegoniata and Spermaphyta by Karl Goebel, Isaac Bayley Balfour (1905)
"haustoria of Parasites. The haustoria of parasites may also be considered as ...
It has been customary to consider the haustoria of Cuscuta, for example, ..."
2. Foundations of Biology by Lorande Loss Woodruff (1922)
"A, cross section of stem of host to show its penetration by the Dodder
roots (haustoria). C, several Dodder seedlings growing in the soil before attachment ..."
3. The American Naturalist by American Society of Naturalists, Essex Institute (1908)
"Its earlier parasitism is by sessile haus- toria, which are soon discarded, and
its later parasitism is by haustoria-tipped tendrils, sometimes erroneously ..."
4. An Introduction to Vegetable Physiology by Joseph Reynolds Green (1907)
"The former penetrate the living cells of the plant they infest, or in a few cases
ramify between them, sending haustoria in to the interior of the cells ..."
5. Guide to the Materials for American History in Roman and Other Italian Archives by Carl Russell Fish (1911)
"Such histological facts agree very well with the observations that haustoria are
most frequently found on young host roots and are usually small, ..."
6. Plant-geography Upon a Physiological Basis by Andreas Franz Wilhelm Schimper (1903)
"Organs of absorption : haustoria. Occurrence in families of plants. Geographical
distribution. INTRODUCTION. DISPERSED among the plants that occupy the ..."
7. The Principles of Pharmacognosy: An Introduction to the Study of the Crude by Friedrich August Flückiger (1887)
"To these haustoria correspond the surfaces of the cells lying close to the
endosperm, which consist mostly of palisade-shaped cells with protuberances ..."
8. Morphology of Angiosperms: (Morphology of Spermatophytes. Part II) by John Merle Coulter, Charles Joseph Chamberlain (1903)
"... Lang 91 not only discovered conspicuous haustoria, but used this character,
along with others, such as the nucellus with a single row of axial cells, ..."
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