Maloid
Definition, Meaning & Examples
Part of speech noun
Quick meaning: Maloid is a noun meaning A species in the Maloideae subfamily, which includes apples and pears.
Meaning
A species in the Maloideae subfamily, which includes apples and pears.
More Meanings
- Relating to the Maloideae subfamily.
Example Sentences
Other maloid genera with hard nutlets are Cotoneaster, Hesperomeles, Osteomeles, and Pyracantba, but each of these is quite different from Mespilus and Crataegus.
Assessing the evolutionary impact of the versatile breeding behavior of maloids also requires not only more robust measures of its frequency in natural populations but also much further study of the cellular mechanisms of apomixis, and its association with polyploidy, self-compatibility, and hybridization.
Word Forms
- maloids
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