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Definition of Phytoid
1. a. Resembling a plant; plantlike.
Definition of Phytoid
1. Adjective. Resembling a plant. ¹
¹ Source: wiktionary.com
Definition of Phytoid
1. resembling a plant [adj]
Medical Definition of Phytoid
1. Resembling a plant; plantlike. Origin: Phyto-. Source: Websters Dictionary (01 Mar 1998)
Lexicographical Neighbors of Phytoid
Literary usage of Phytoid
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Smithsonian Contributions to Knowledge by Smithsonian Institution (1853)
"ON SOME PARASITIC phytoid BODIES, THE NATURE OF WHICH is OBSCURE. Among the
objects which I detected with a good deal of constancy within the ventriculus of ..."
2. The English Cyclopaedia by Charles Knight (1866)
"... phytoid, dichotomously divided into narrow ligulate bi-multiserial ... the same
way and forming dichotomously divided branches of an erect, phytoid, ..."
3. Journal of Botany, British and Foreign (1866)
"In both a highly differentiated portion of the organism separates as a motile
bud,—in the one a phytoid, in the other a zooid form ; in both, ..."
4. Principles of Comparative Physiology by William Benjamin Carpenter (1854)
"... and each of them may give origin to an independent plant or "phytoid. ...
since every "zoospore" may develop itself into a new "phytoid," whilst the ..."
5. The Transactions of the Microscopical Society of London by Microscopical Society of London (1860)
"... phytoid, branched; branches irregular, very slender, straight, ... which is
thoroughly phytoid, except that the branches are all in one plane. ..."
6. Edinburgh New Philosophical Journal, Exhibiting a View of the Progressive by Robert Jameson, Sir William Jardine, Henry D Rogers (1864)
"... while those of the third are degradational, since almost all are attached and
very inferior in type of structure, being the most-phytoid of ..."
7. The Edinburgh New Philosophical Journal (1864)
"... while those of the third are degradational, since almost all are attached and
very inferior in type of structure, being the most phytoid of ..."
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