Rhizoids is valid Scrabble Word

Definitions for RHIZOIDS in dictionary:

NOUN:
• RHIZOID, a short hairlike organ in the lower plants, serving as a root
• a filamentous outgrowth or root hair on the underside of the thallus in some lower plants, especially mosses and liverworts, serving both to anchor the plant and (in terrestrial forms) to conduct water.
OTHER DEFINITIONS:
• a rootlike structure

Words related to RHIZOIDS

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How to use RHIZOIDS in a sentence

• In the Marchantiales the chief supply is obtained from the soil by the rhizoids, and its loss in transpiration is regulated and controlled.
• In most liverworts, on the other hand, water is absorbed directly by the whole general surface, and the rhizoids are of subordinate importance.
• The rhizoids spring from the lower surface of the stem, and sometimes from the bases of the leaves.
• The small plants grow closely crowded in tufts, and consist of short leafy shoots attached to the soil by numerous fine rhizoids.
• The latter, in contrast to the rhizoids of liverworts, are composed of rows of elongated cells and are branched.
• The social growth of the plants characteristic of many mosses is a result of the formation of numerous plants on the original protonema and on developments from the rhizoids.

Similar words containing RHIZOID without suffix s

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