English words starting with rhizo

Meanings of Rhizobia:

noun

A nitrogen-fixing bacterium that is common in the soil, especially in the root nodules of leguminous plants.

Usage examples:

In an exciting paper, fox describes how estrogen signals between plants and their symbiotic rhizobi…

Meanings of Rhizobium:

noun

A nitrogen-fixing bacterium that is common in the soil, especially in the root nodules of leguminous plants.

Usage examples:

In an exciting paper, fox describes how estrogen signals between plants and their symbiotic rhizobi…

Meanings of Rhizocarp:

noun

Any plant of the (former) class rhizocarpeae (now the family marsileaceae) of aquatic and semiaquatic ferns; a marsileaceous plant.

Meanings of Rhizocarpic:

adjective

"rhizocarpic acid" noun a yellow crystalline acid obtained from lichens of the genus rhizocarpon.

Meanings of Rhizocarpous:

adjective

Having a perennial root but an annual stem (rare).

Meanings of Rhizocephala:

noun

With plural agreement. an order of cirripede crustaceans (barnacles) which are highly specialized parasites of decapod crustaceans, having most adult organs reduced or absent, and sending rootlike absorptive processes into the host's body; (also rhizocephala) crustaceans of this order (collectively or individually).

Meanings of Rhizocephalan:

noun

A parasitic crustacean of the order rhizocephala.

adjective

Of or relating to the order rhizocephala.

Meanings of Rhizocephalous:

adjective

= rhizocephalan .

Meanings of Rhizoctonia:

noun

A common soil fungus that sometimes causes plant diseases such as damping off, foot rot, and eyespot.

Usage examples:

The problem could be rhizoctonia stem rot, a soil-borne fungal disease that triggers stem wilt and …

Meanings of Rhizogenetic:

adjective

= rhizogenic .

Meanings of Rhizogenic:

adjective

Of, relating to, or promoting the formation of roots; root-producing.

Meanings of Rhizoid:

noun

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.

Usage examples:

The other end manifests an array of long, filamentous rhizoids that have the appearance, and appare…

Meanings of Rhizoids:

noun

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.

Usage examples:

The other end manifests an array of long, filamentous rhizoids that have the appearance, and appare…

Meanings of Rhizomatic:

adjective

= rhizomatous .

Meanings of Rhizomatous:

adjective

Of the nature of a rhizome; having or characterized by the possession of a rhizome; of or relating to a rhizome or rhizomes.

Meanings of Rhizome:

noun

A continuously growing horizontal underground stem which puts out lateral shoots and adventitious roots at intervals.

Usage examples:

The plant is tough to stamp out because it develops a system of roots and rhizomes, horizontal unde…

Meanings of Rhizomes:

noun

A continuously growing horizontal underground stem which puts out lateral shoots and adventitious roots at intervals.

Usage examples:

The plant is tough to stamp out because it develops a system of roots and rhizomes, horizontal unde…

Meanings of Rhizomic:

adjective

= rhizomatous .

Meanings of Rhizomorph:

noun

A rootlike aggregation of hyphae in certain fungi.

Usage examples:

Its long, thin black rhizomorphs enable it to spread underground from tree to tree.

Meanings of Rhizomorphic:

noun

Possessing rhizomorphs; relating to of the nature of a rhizomorph.

Meanings of Rhizomorphous:

adjective

Of the nature of or resembling a rhizomorph; resembling a root, root-like; (in early use) †belonging to the (former) genus rhizomorpha (obsolete).

Meanings of Rhizophagous:

adjective

Feeding on roots.

Meanings of Rhizophora:

noun

A genus of tropical mangrove trees with prop roots arising from the stem and branches (family rhizophoraceae); (also rhizophora) a mangrove of this genus, especially the red mangrove, r. mangle.

Meanings of Rhizophore:

noun

In many clubmosses of the genus selaginella and certain other members of the family lycopodiaceae: a leafless branch arising at the fork of a stem, which grows downwards and bears roots on contact with the earth.

Meanings of Rhizophorous:

adjective

Belonging or relating to the genus rhizophora or the family rhizophoraceae of mangroves.