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antheridium en · NOUN

Etymology

From anther + -idium.

Meanings

1. An organ producing male gametes called antherozoids, found in some algae, ferns, and bryophytes.
   • Ascodesmis is a third type which might be derived either directly or through the erysiphaceous type from an endomycetous ancestor; the antheridium and oogonium are but little differentiated, but the latter is furnished with a trichogyne and becomes septate after fertilization; the ascogenous hyphae are few and the sheath simple. 2010, Helen Gwynne-Vaughan, Fungi: Ascomycetes, Ustilaginales, Uredinales, page 54:

Forms

Deriveds

antheridial

Relateds

archegonium

Translations (9)

ca anteridi (bryophyte organ producing male gametes) · fi anteridio (bryophyte organ producing male gametes) · ga antairidiam (bryophyte organ producing male gametes) · fi siittiöpesäke (bryophyte organ producing male gametes) · pt anterídio (bryophyte organ producing male gametes) · la anthēridium (bryophyte organ producing male gametes) · fr anthéridie (bryophyte organ producing male gametes) · es anteridio (bryophyte organ producing male gametes) · pl plemnia (bryophyte organ producing male gametes)