mycetome Zool.
(ˈmaɪsɪtəʊm)
Also mycetom.
[ad. G. mycetom (K. Šulc 1911, in Sitzungsber. d. k. böhm. Ges. f. Wissensch. (Math.-Natur. Classe) Jahrg. 1910 iii. 10): see myceto- and -ome.]
An organ in some insects consisting of an aggregation of mycetocytes.
| 1924 Philippine Jrnl. Sci. XXIV. 143 (heading) Studies on the embryogeny and postnatal development of the Aphididæ with special reference to the history of the ‘symbiotic organ’, or ‘mycetom’. 1946 E. A. Steinhaus Insect Microbiol. iv. 190 In 1850 Leydig observed certain organs in aphids which have subsequently been called ‘symbiotic organs’, ‘pseudovitelli’, ‘green bodies’, ‘bacteriotomes’, and ‘mycetoms’ or ‘mycetomes’. 1946 Nature 30 Nov. 795/2 These insects would starve for lack of nitrogenous food were it not for mycetome symbiosis with Azotobacter. 1973 [see mycetocyte]. |