Etymology: modern Latin, < gonimon (see gonimicadj.).
Botany.
A gonidium which is not of an absolutely green (grass-green) colour.
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1882 Crombie in Encycl. Brit. XIV. 556/1Gonimia (or the gonidial granules already mentioned) which are naked, pale greenish, glaucous greenish or bluish.
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