Defn: A rootlike filament or hair growing from the stems of mosses or on lichens; a rhizoid.
Proceeding from a rootlike stem, or one which does not rise above the ground; as, the radical leaves of the dandelion and the sidesaddle flower.
The stem clings to walls and trees by rootlike fibers.
A rootlike filament or hair growing from the stems of mosses or on lichens; a rhizoid.
It is, of course, of microscopic size, and yet near its base there is a branch tube formed, differing from it in structure and ultimately forming rhizoids, which are rootlike hairs.
They have a long stem, with rootlike branches to support it, and are capped with what appears like an inverted starfish, and is literally a starfish perched upon a stem.
Among them we find one which is attached to a rootlike object, and this is placed at the bottom.
Little rootlike structures known as rhizoids dip down into the bread, and absorb food for its threadlike body.
This they are able to do by means of digestive enzymes given out by the rootlike parts, by means of which the molds cling to the bread.
Stigmaria is the name given, not to a distinct species of plant, but to the large rootlike organs which we know to have belonged to all the species of Lepidodendron and of Sigillaria.
The huge stems are objects of public interest, and have been preserved in the Victoria Park in Glasgow in their original position in the rocks, apparently as they grew with their spreading rootlike organs running horizontally.
