rhizoid
pronunciation
How to pronounce rhizoid in British English:
UK ['raɪzɔɪd]
How to pronounce rhizoid in American English:
US ['raɪzɔɪd]
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- Noun:
- any of various slender filaments that function as roots in mosses and ferns and fungi etc
Word Origin
- rhizoid (adj.)
- "root-like," 1858, from Greek rhiza "root," literal and figurative (see rhizome) + -oid. As a noun from 1875.
Example
- 1. Bog moss that has no rhizoid and rarely bears a capsule ; it has a high water content and its decomposition helps to form peat .
- 2. The small cell geminates to a rhizoid by tip growth , and the large cell further divides and develops to become a prothallus ( the fern gametophyte ) .