Meanings
- not comparablebiologyBeing a type of sponge cell with many rodlike inclusions and secreting mucopolysaccharide.
So far no indisputable function has been ascribed to any of the following cell types except rhabdiferous cells.
1978, Patricia R. Bergquist, Sponges, page 702 more examples
As Huxley had concluded, the choanocytes derived from the original sponge tissue, as did the collencytes. The glandular and rhabdiferous cells, on the other hand, derived from the archeocytes.
1971, C. Vago, Invertebrate Tissue Culture, page 391There is now good evidence that many special cells in this broadly descriptive category are functionally homologous; these include rhabdiferous cells [...]
1984, Simpson, Tracy L., 1937-, The cell biology of sponges, page 91
Origin
- Ancient Greekῥάβδος“rod”
- Englishrhabdiferous
From rhabd-, from Ancient Greek ῥάβδος (rhábdos, “rod”) + -iferous.
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