| 单词 |
appressorium |
| 释义 |
appressorium Bot.|æprɛˈsɔərɪəm| Pl. -ia. [mod.L., f. L. appress-, ppl. stem of apprimĕre, f. ad ad- + premĕre to press: see -orium.] The organ by which certain fungi attach themselves to their hosts.
1897W. G. Smith tr. Tubeuf's Diseases Plants Cryptogr. Parasites i. i. 10 The mycelium retains its hold by adhesion-discs or appressoria, and from certain parts of these a fine thread-like process is given off. 1902Encycl. Brit. XXVIII. 555/1 Appressoria are also formed by some parasitic Fungi, as a minute flattening of the top of a very short branch..or the swollen end of any hypha which comes in contact with..the host. 1937Gwynne-Vaughan & Barnes Struct. & Devel. Fungi (ed. 2) 187 An external disc or appressorium, from which,..the haustorium proper arises and pushes into the epidermal cell. |

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