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rhizoid medical definition
adjective
- Rootlike.
- Having irregular branching. Used of a form of bacterial growth.
- A slender rootlike filament by which mosses, liverworts, and fern gametophytes attach to the substratum and absorb nourishment.
- A rootlike extension of the thallus of a fungus.
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