Trichogyne

Quick meaning: Trichogyne is a noun meaning (botany, mycology) The slender, hair-like cell which receives the fertilizing particles, or antherozoids, in female red seaweeds, lichens and fungi.

Meaning

(botany, mycology) The slender, hair-like cell which receives the fertilizing particles, or antherozoids, in female red seaweeds, lichens and fungi.

Example Sentences

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.

Word Forms

• trichogynes

Related Words

Related dictionary entries include trichophore, trichome, trichophyte, trichoblast, trichite, trichosclereid.

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