Etymology

From thallus +‎ -ode +‎ -icCategory:English terms suffixed with -ode#THALLODICCategory:English terms suffixed with -ic#THALLODIC.

Adjective

thallodic (comparative more thallodic, superlative most thallodic)Category:English lemmas#THALLODICCategory:English adjectives#THALLODICCategory:English entries with incorrect language header#THALLODICCategory:Pages with entries#THALLODICCategory:Pages with 1 entry#THALLODIC

1. (botanyCategory:en:Botany#THALLODIC) Resembling or having the character of a thallus.

   Synonyms: thallodal, thalloid, thalliform, thalline, thallose

   • 1887, [Heinrich] A[nton] de Bary, chapter VII. Phenomena of Vegetation, in Henry E. F. Garnsey, transl., edited by Isaac Bayley Balfour, Comparative Morphology and Biology of the Fungi, Mycetozoa and Bacteria, Oxford, Oxfordshire: Clarendon Press, page 401:

     The 'thallodic' margin of the apothecia which is characteristic of many genera and contains Algae (see Figs. 86, 87, 89) belongs, as the name rightly expresses, to the thallus and not to the apothecium.

     Category:English terms with quotations#THALLODIC

References

• “thallodic, adj.”, in OED Online ⁠, Oxford: Oxford University Press, launched 2000.