Associations to the word «Rhizoid»

Wiktionary

RHIZOID, noun. (botany) A rootlike structure in fungi and some plants that acts as support and/or aids the absorption of nutrients.

Dictionary definition

RHIZOID, noun. Any of various slender filaments that function as roots in mosses and ferns and fungi etc.

Wise words

We should have a great fewer disputes in the world if words were taken for what they are, the signs of our ideas only, and not for things themselves.
John Locke