Definitions
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.
- noun A hairlike or bristlelike, sometimes glandular, outgrowth from the epidermis of a plant.
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun An outgrowth from the epidermis of plants, as a hair, scale, bristle, or prickle. These may be very various in form and function, but morphologically they have a common origin.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- noun (Bot.) A hair on the surface of leaf or stem, or any modification of a hair, as a minute scale, or star, or gland. The sporangia of ferns are believed to be of the nature of trichomes.
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- noun botany A
hair - orscale -like extension of theepidermis of aplant . - noun biology
Hairlike structures found in some microscopic organisms andalgae . - noun pathology, cell biology A
row ofcells formed by successive celldivisions .
Etymologies
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 4th Edition
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Examples
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(G) lgo-1 rosette leaf trichome, which is normal shape and size.
PLoS Biology: New Articles Adrienne H. K. Roeder et al. 2010
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Here we see a sheath, and on the inside can see a chain of cells, rod-shaped cells, that make up the trichome of a cyanobacterium.
First Contact Marc Kaufman 2011
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Here we see a sheath, and on the inside can see a chain of cells, rod-shaped cells, that make up the trichome of a cyanobacterium.
First Contact Marc Kaufman 2011
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I knew every structure within that tree, each vessel, each pore and trichome, the placement of each stamen, and the pathways of every drop of green blood.
The Serpent and the Rainbow Wade Davis 1985
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Although in innumerable instances foliar organs move when excited, no case is known of a trichome having such [page 359] power.
Insectivorous Plants Charles Darwin 1845
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For each leaf, three trichome counts were taken from a central section of the lower surface, excluding the primary and secondary leaf veins.
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While a previous study reported differences in the trichome density between
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Conducting pair-wise comparisons, a significantly greater trichome density was found for
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Boxplot figures showing the median trichome density per cm2
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It was noticeable, though, that the trichome density of
yarb commented on the word trichome
Some of the little parasitic queens, indeed, are actually provided with tufts of long hairs or "trichomes," which are apparently saturated with attractive ethereal materials highly prized by the host workers, which spend much of their time licking these trichomes and tending the bearers of them.
- Caryl P. Haskins, Of Ants and Men, 1939, p. 113
December 11, 2008