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isidium

[ahy-sid-ee-uhm]

noun

Botany.

plural

isidia 
  1. a coralloid outgrowth from the thallus in certain lichens.



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Word History and Origins

Origin of isidium1

1865–70; < New Latin, derivative of Isid- (stem of Isis ) Isis (from the hornlike appearance of the growth); -ium

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