nematogone
Word Rarity
Very rare
Frequency: Zipf frequency 0.00 in modern English
13
Scrabble Score
10
Letters
3
Syllables
7
Unique Chars
Meaning
noun
A thin-walled reproductive cell found in the gemmae of certain mosses.
Example Sentences
- "I have not found any trace of germination in the filaments, but there can be no doubt that the terminal rounded cell can function as a nematogone, and probably the basal cell also, to judge by what happens in the European species B, capillare p. where the form and develop¬ ment of the brutfMen are, in the main, very similar."