English Explanatory Dictionary

trophosome

English dictionary entry

Meanings

noun
  1. The group of nutritive zooids of a hydrozoan.
  2. The mass of chemolithoautotrophic bacteria in a pogonophoran that metabolizes sulfide.
  3. An organ found in some animals, located in the coelomic cavity, that houses symbiotic bacteria, which in turn provide nutrients to the host animal.

Word forms

trophosome trophosomes

Etymology

From tropho- + -some.

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