Anthoid

Quick meaning: Anthoid is an adjective meaning Resembling a flower.

Meaning

Resembling a flower.

More Meanings

1. (botany) A flower or, more commonly, a floret that has the simplest, most basic type of structure.

Example Sentences

The distal spikelets are reduced to solitary flowers (anthoids) leaving the raised areole-like elliptical scars when detached.

The fructification of the spores is effected by the turbid fluid which proceeds from the apertures of the anthoid organs, and flows over the surface of the fronds.

The functional reproductive units are either rather simple anthoids (as found in e.g., all or nearly all monocotyledons, and in amentiferous and most of the other monochlamydeous forms) or more intricately organised holanthocormoids (almost always, if not exclusively, zoophilous).

Lam (1950), for example, divided the angiosperms into phyllosporous and stachysporous groups, whereas Meeuse (1986) in his Anthocorm Theory suggests that there are at least two different kinds of flower (or in Meeuse's terminology FRUs, functional reproductive units): holoanths and anthoids.

Word Forms

• anthoids

Related Words

Related dictionary entries include antheroid, amianthoid, amianthiform, phytoid, petaloid, strobiloid.

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