Definition of Rhizoids. Meaning of Rhizoids. Synonyms of Rhizoids

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Definition of Rhizoids

Rhizoid
Rhizoid Rhi"zoid, n. [Gr. ??? root + -oid.] (Bot.) A rootlike appendage.

Meaning of Rhizoids from wikipedia

- of plants to the land. Rhizoids absorb water mainly by capillary action, in which water moves up between threads of rhizoids and not through each of...
- the last group, rhizoids of compatible strains meet and fuse. Both nuclei migrate out of the zoosporangium and into the conjoined rhizoids where they fuse...
- tuberculated rhizoids; these help in anchorage and absorption. The inner surface of the smooth rhizoids is smooth while that of the tuberculate rhizoid will have...
- represented by leafy gametop**** which is differentiated into rhizoids, axis and leaves. Rhizoids arise from the base of the axis and they are slender, branched...
- plants may have their vertical axes preserved in growth position, with rhizoids still attached to rhizomes; even the plant litter is preserved. Plants...
- through their rhizoids.[citation needed] They can be distinguished from liverworts (Marchantiophyta or Hepaticae) by their multi-cellular rhizoids. Spore-bearing...
- Multicellular purple colored scales with single cell thickness and unicellular rhizoids are present on the ventral surface of the thallus. Marchantia can reproduce...
- typically anc****d to the littoral substrate by means of branching underground rhizoids. Chara plants are rough to the touch because of deposited calcium salts...
- single egg at the bottom, reached by the sperm by swimming down the neck. Rhizoids: root-like structures (not true roots) that consist of single greatly elongated...
- centimetres (2.0 in) in rarer cases. The "bubble" alga is attached by rhizoids to the substrate fibers. Reproduction occurs by segregative cell division...