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Definitions of rhizoid
  1. noun
    any of various slender filaments that function as roots in mosses and ferns and fungi etc
Definition that contains rhizoid
  • division bryophyta a division of nonflowering plants characterized by rhizoids rather than true roots and having little or no organized vascular tissue and showing alternation of generations between gamete-bearing forms and spore-bearing forms; comprises true mosses (Bryopsida) and liverworts (Hepaticopsida) and hornworts (Anthoceropsida)
  • genus mucor type genus of the Mucoraceae; genus of molds having cylindrical or pear-shaped sporangia not limited in location to points where rhizoids develop
  • genus rhizopus a genus of rot-causing fungi having columnar hemispherical aerial sporangia anchored to the substrate by rhizoids
  • bryophyta a division of nonflowering plants characterized by rhizoids rather than true roots and having little or no organized vascular tissue and showing alternation of generations between gamete-bearing forms and spore-bearing forms; comprises true mosses (Bryopsida) and liverworts (Hepaticopsida) and hornworts (Anthoceropsida)
  • rhizoidal of or relating to a rhizoid
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