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Definition of Podetium
1. Noun. An organ or body resembling a stalk; especially the outgrowth of the thallus of certain lichens on which the ascocarp is borne.
Definition of Podetium
1. n. A stalk which bears the fructification in some lichens, as in the so-called reindeer moss.
Definition of Podetium
1. Noun. A stalk which bears the fructification in some lichens, such as the reindeer moss. ¹
¹ Source: wiktionary.com
Medical Definition of Podetium
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Origin: NL, fr. Gr, foot.
Lexicographical Neighbors of Podetium
Literary usage of Podetium
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. The London Journal of Botany by Sir William Jackson Hooker (1846)
"6. podetium; /. 1. portion of apothecium; /. 8. ditto, more advanced; /. 9.
asci;—more or less magnified. New IIi,i'ATIC.K ; by THOMAS TAYLOR, ..."
2. A Glossary of Botanic Terms, with Their Derivation and Accent by Benjamin Daydon Jackson (1905)
"... a foot, forma, shape), shaped like a podetium ... î a very short podetium (Lindley) ;
Pod'ium, Pod'us, ..."
3. Acta Soc. Pro Fauna Et Flora Fennica by Societas pro Fauna et Flora Fennica (1894)
"... quare squama talis in podetium ... adhuc in podetium transformata, distincte
diu ostendens), con- stans ex ..."
4. Proceedings of the Royal Society of Victoria by Royal Society of Victoria (1893)
"Apothecia thin, pale or rufous, darker or lighter, terminating the terete podetium
or covering the upper surface of the frond-like ..."
5. Organography of Plants, Especially of the Archegoniata and Spermaphyta by Karl Goebel (1900)
"(3) In some lichens the stalk of the ascocarp, called the podetium, is strongly
developed and of importance as an assimilation-organ, for example in ..."
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