English Explanatory Dictionary

blastesis

English dictionary entry

Meanings

noun
  1. Budding or growth of new mineral crystals in solid rock.
  2. Reproduction of a lichen thallus using gonidia.

Word forms

blastesis

Etymology

From Ancient Greek βλάστησις (blástēsis, “germination”). Coined by Friedrich Becke in 1903.

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