Word Pronunciation & Dictionary

meconidium

Word Rarity Very rare

Frequency: Zipf frequency 0.00 in modern English

Syllables: meconi-d-i-um
IPA

17

Scrabble Score

10

Letters

4

Syllables

8

Unique Chars

Meaning

noun

A kind of gonophore produced by hydroids of the genus Gonothyraea (Campanulariidae), having tentacles, and otherwise resembling a free medusa, but remaining attached by a pedicel.

Example Sentences

"These appear as sessile medusæ resting on the top of the gonangium, there being usually two or three such structures on the top of each gonangium. These meconidia are formed very much as ordinary gonophores on the blastostyle within the gonangium, appearing at first as mere hernia-like protrusions of the latter and several appearing in different stages of development on the same blastostyle."
"After the meconidium wall has been removed, the eggs often remain adherent to the blastostyle endoderm"

Etymology

From Ancient Greek μήκων (mḗkōn, “poppy”, due to a resemblance to poppy-capsules) + -idium.

Origin

Source language: Ancient Greek

Word Breakdown

Root: μήκων

Inflected Forms

meconidia (plural)

Questions

What does meconidium mean?: A kind of gonophore produced by hydroids of the genus Gonothyraea (Campanulariidae), having tentacles, and otherwise resembling a free medusa, but remaining attached by a pedicel.
Where does meconidium come from?: It is traced to Ancient Greek.

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