antheridium
noun
a male reproductive structure producing gametes, occurring in ferns, mosses, fungi, and algae.
antheridial
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a word derived from
antheridium.
Example Sentences
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M. polymórpha, L. Thallus 2–5´ long, ½–1½´ wide, numerously porose, venulose; receptacle divided into usually 9 terete rays; peduncles 1–3´ high; antheridial disk crenately or palmately 2–8-lobed, on a peduncle 1´ high or less.—Everywhere common.
From The Manual of the Botany of the Northern United States Including the District East of the Mississippi and North of North Carolina and Tennessee by Asa Gray
Stems brownish-green, rigid, tenacious; leaves remote, scarcely decurrent, obliquely elliptic-ovate, opaque, the cells round and strongly chlorophyllose; diœcious; the antheridial spike lateral below the keel of a leaf, long, linear, somewhat obtuse.
From The Manual of the Botany of the Northern United States Including the District East of the Mississippi and North of North Carolina and Tennessee by Asa Gray
In the development of distinct antheridial and oogonial cells the allied Ancylistineae show close alliances to Pythium and the Oomycetes.
From Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 11, Slice 3 "Frost" to "Fyzabad" by Various
Fructification: ovate spores and tufts of antheridial cells attached to the lateral ramuli, which consist of minute, radiating, dichotomous beaded filaments.
From Scientific American Supplement, No. 384, May 12, 1883 by Various
To study them in their natural position, thin longitudinal sections of the antheridial branch should be made.
From Elements of Structural and Systematic Botany For High Schools and Elementary College Courses by Douglas Houghton Campbell
