rhabdiferous

English

Etymology

From rhabd-, from Ancient Greek ῥάβδος (rhábdos, “rod”) + -iferous.[1]

Adjective

rhabdiferous (not comparable)

  1. (biology) Of a sponge cell, having many rodlike inclusions and secreting mucopolysaccharide.[1][2]
    • 1971, C. Vago, Invertebrate Tissue Culture‎[3], page 391:
      As Huxley had concluded, the choanocytes derived from the original sponge tissue, as did the collencytes. The glandular and rhabdiferous cells, on the other hand, derived from the archeocytes.
    • 1978, Patricia R. Bergquist, Sponges‎[4], page 70:
      So far no indisputable function has been ascribed to any of the following cell types except rhabdiferous cells.
    • 1984, Simpson, Tracy L., 1937-, The cell biology of sponges‎[5], page 91:
      There is now good evidence that many special cells in this broadly descriptive category are functionally homologous; these include rhabdiferous cells [...]

References

  1. ↑ 1.0 1.1 Online Dictionary of Invertebrate Zoology‎[1], 2005, page 788
  2. ^ Thesaurus of sponge morphology‎[2], Washington, D.C. : Smithsonian Institution Press, 1997, page 14
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