Cormophytic
Definition, Meaning & Examples
Part of speech adjective
Quick meaning: Cormophytic is an adjective meaning Of or relating to cormophytes; having the character of a cormophyte.
Meaning
Of or relating to cormophytes; having the character of a cormophyte.
Example Sentences
Many bryophytes possess several cormophytic structures such as a cuticle, stomata, or conducting tissues; however, they make no use of them.
Similar developmental coordination is required for vascular differentiation in the graft union (Wang and Kollmann 1996) and for many other developmental processes (for example, for the development of functional connections between cormophytic parasites and their host plants).
They are more vegetable than animal, if these terms can be applied to the sort of matter composing them, and have a somewhat fungoid structure; though the presence of a chlorophyll-like substance and a very singular nutritive system differentiate them altogether from true cormophytic fungi.
Related Words
Related dictionary entries include cormidial, cormogenic, cormous, cycadophytinous, cymoid, mycorrhizic.
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