PODETIUM (podetia)

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Irregular inflected form: podetia   

 Dictionary entry overview: What does podetium mean? 

• PODETIUM (noun)
  The noun PODETIUM has 1 sense:

1. an organ or body resembling a stalk; especially the outgrowth of the thallus of certain lichens on which the ascocarp is borne

  Familiarity information: PODETIUM used as a noun is very rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• PODETIUM (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

An organ or body resembling a stalk; especially the outgrowth of the thallus of certain lichens on which the ascocarp is borne

Classified under:

Nouns denoting plants

Hypernyms ("podetium" is a kind of...):

enation; plant process (a natural projection or outgrowth from a plant body or organ)

Hyponyms (each of the following is a kind of "podetium"):

seta (stalk of a moss capsule)