thallodic

comparative more thallodic · superlative most thallodic

1. biologyResembling or having the character of a thallus.

   The 'thallodic' margin of the apothecia which is characteristic of many genera and contains Algae (see Figs. 86, 87, 89) belongs, as the name rightly expresses, to the thallus and not to the apothecium.

   1887, [Heinrich] A[nton] de Bary, chapter VII. Phenomena of Vegetation, in Henry E. F. Garnsey, transl., edited by Isaac Bayley Balfour, Comparative Morphology and Biology of the Fungi, Mycetozoa and Bacteria, Oxford, Oxfordshire: Clarendon Press, page 401

   Synonyms: thallodal, thalloid, thalliform, thalline, thallose