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Meaning of HAUSTORIUM

Pronunciation:  ho'stowreeum

WordNet Dictionary
 
 Definition: [n]  a rootlike attachment in parasitic plants that penetrates and obtains food from the host
 
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 See Also: enation, plant process

 

 

Webster's 1913 Dictionary
 
 Definition: 
\Haus*to"ri*um\, n.; pl. {Haustoria}. [LL., a well,
fr. L. haurire, haustum, to drink.] (Bot.)
One of the suckerlike rootlets of such plants as the dodder
and ivy. --R. Brown.
 
Biology Dictionary
 
 Definition: The modified hyphae of a parasitic fungus that penetrate the host's cells.
 

 

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