Phyllidium

Quick meaning: Phyllidium is a noun meaning (zoology) A muscular, leaf-shaped or cuplike outgrowth from the lateral wall of the scolex of some cestodes.

Meaning

(zoology) A muscular, leaf-shaped or cuplike outgrowth from the lateral wall of the scolex of some cestodes.

More Meanings

1. (zoology) A rudimentary form of ctenidium found in some gastropods.
2. (botany) Alternative form of phyllodium.

Example Sentences

The four phyllidia are arranged in pairs with each phyllidium occupying a corner of the rectangular scolex.

Interference-contrast micrograph through the abaxial surface of a proximal cell of a phyllidium of Tortula ruralis ten minutes after rehydration from the desiccated state.

The five species described above form an interesting series illustrating the gradual modification of the entire phyllidium into a sucker, just as individual loculi become modified into suckers.

The lateral lobes of each opposite phyllidium being thus brought together and forming an apparent whole, botanists supposed they had before them two stigmata in this order opposed to the placentae, which was contrary to all analogy.

Word Forms

• phyllidia

Synonyms for phyllidium

Depending on context, synonyms include bothridium.

Related Words

Related dictionary entries include phyllid, phylliid, phyllocyst, phyllode, phyllodium, phyllopod.

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