Definitions
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.
- adjective Of or having an allantois.
- adjective Shaped like a sausage.
from The Century Dictionary.
- Of or pertaining to the allantois: as, the allantoid membrane.
- noun Same as
allantois . - noun In botany, sausage-shaped: applied especially to the spores of certain pyrenomycetous fungi.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- adjective (Anat.) Of or pertaining to the allantois.
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- adjective mycology
Sausage -shaped. Often used to describespores that are long with rounded ends. - noun An
allantois .
from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
- adjective shaped like a sausage
Etymologies
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 4th Edition
[New Latin allantoīdes; see allantois.]
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Ancient Greek ἀλλαντοειδής (allantoeides, "sausage-shaped"), from ἀλλάς (allâs, "sausage").
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