thallodic

English

Etymology

From thallus +‎ -ode +‎ -ic.

Adjective

thallodic (comparative more thallodic, superlative most thallodic)

1. (botany) Resembling or having the character of a thallus.

   Synonyms: thallodal, thalloid, thalliform, thalline, thallose

   • 1887, [Heinrich] A[nton] de Bary, chapter VII. Phenomena of Vegetation, in Henry E. F. Garnsey, transl., edited by Isaac Bayley Balfour, Comparative Morphology and Biology of the Fungi, Mycetozoa and Bacteria, Oxford, Oxfordshire: Clarendon Press, page 401:

     The 'thallodic' margin of the apothecia which is characteristic of many genera and contains Algae (see Figs. 86, 87, 89) belongs, as the name rightly expresses, to the thallus and not to the apothecium.

References

• “thallodic, adj.”, in OED Online ⁠, Oxford: Oxford University Press, launched 2000.