favellidium Bot.
(fævɪˈlɪdɪəm)
[f. (by J. G. Agardh 1842) favella + Gr. dim. ending -ιδιον (improperly used, as no diminutive sense was intended.]
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| [1842 Agardh Algæ 60 Sunt sporæ numerosæ in glomerulum arcte congestestæ, pericarpio hyalino..circumdatæ; has Favellidia appellavi.] 1857 M. J. Berkeley Cryptog. Bot. §144. 170 Thus by the evolution of one cell, a favella..is formed; by the evolution of several detached but adjacent mother-cells, a compound favella or favellidium results. 1867 J. Hogg Microsc. ii. i. 273 Such a fruit is called a favellidium and occurs in Halymenia. 1884 Syd. Soc. Lex., Favellidium (dim. of Favella), a form of the conceptacular part of a florideous Alga, in which the spores are collected into spherical masses, which lie entirely embedded in the substance of the frond, as in Halymenia; or project somewhat, as in Gigartina. |