gono-comb. form
representing Greek γονο-, combining form of γόνος, γονή generation, offspring, semen, etc. Used in a few compounds in Greek (of which only gonorrhoea n. has passed into English), and now employed in various technical terms of modern Biology, Zoology, etc.
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ˈgonoblast n. 
/ˈɡɒnə(ʊ)blast/,
Brit. /ˈɡɒnə(ʊ)blɑːst/
, /ˈɡɒnə(ʊ)blɑːst//ˈɡɒnə(ʊ)blast/U.S. /ˈɡɑnəˌblæst/
Biology a cell which takes part in reproduction. [After German Gonoblast (1879 or earlier).] /ˈɡɑnəˌblæst/ ˌgonoˈblastic adj.
Brit. /ˌɡɒnə(ʊ)ˈblastɪk/
, /ˌɡɒnə(ʊ)ˈblastɪk/U.S. /ˌɡɑnəˈblæstɪk/
/ˌɡɑnəˈblæstɪk/ΘΚΠ
the world > life > biology > biological processes > procreation or reproduction > reproductive substances or cells > [adjective] > reproductive cell
gonoblastic1884
1884 A. Hyatt in Proc. Boston Soc. Nat. Hist. (1885) XXIII. i. 61 An apparently strong objection to the gonoblastic theory founded on the cover-cell.
ˌgonoblaˈstidium n.
Brit. /ˌɡɒnə(ʊ)blasˈtɪdɪəm/
, /ˌɡɒnə(ʊ)blasˈtɪdɪəm/U.S. /ˌɡɑnəblæsˈtɪdiəm/
(pl. ˌgonoblaˈstididia) Zoology = blastostyle n. at blasto- comb. form ./ˌɡɑnəblæsˈtɪdiəm/ΚΠ
1861 J. R. Greene Man. Animal Kingdom II. 46 In general, gonoblastidia arise from the sides of the cœnosarc.
1877 T. H. Huxley Man. Anat. Invertebrated Animals iii. 143 The groups of male and female gono~phores are borne upon separate branches of the gonoblastidium.
ˌgonoblaˈstidial adj.
Brit. /ˌɡɒnə(ʊ)blasˈtɪdɪəl/
, /ˌɡɒnə(ʊ)blasˈtɪdɪəl/U.S. /ˌɡɑnəblæsˈtɪdiəl/
/ˌɡɑnəblæsˈtɪdiəl/ ˈgonocalyx n. /ˈɡɒnə(ʊ)ˌkalɪks/,
Brit. /ˈɡɒnə(ʊ)ˌkeɪlɪks/
, /ˈɡɒnə(ʊ)ˌkeɪlɪks//ˈɡɒnə(ʊ)ˌkalɪks/U.S. /ˈɡɑnəˌkeɪlɪks/
Zoology the bell-shaped disk forming the swimming organ of a medusiform gonophore. [Compare scientific Latin Gonocalyx, genus name (1856).] /ˈɡɑnəˌkeɪlɪks/ΘΚΠ
the world > animals > invertebrates > subkingdom Metazoa > grade Diploblastica > phylum Coelenterata > [noun] > class Hydrozoa > member of > zooid > reproductive > swimming organ of
gonocalyx1870
1870 H. A. Nicholson Man. Zool. 73 The gonophore is now found to be composed of a bell-shaped disc, termed the ‘gonocalyx’.
gonoˈcalycine adj. /ˌɡɒnə(ʊ)ˈkalᵻsɪn/, /ˌɡɑnəˈkæləˌsaɪn/, /ˌɡɑnəˈkeɪləsən/, /ˌɡɑnəˈkæləsən/
Brit. /ˌɡɒnə(ʊ)ˈkalᵻsʌɪn/
, /ˌɡɒnə(ʊ)ˈkalᵻsʌɪn//ˌɡɒnə(ʊ)ˈkalᵻsɪn/U.S. /ˌɡɑnəˈkeɪləˌsaɪn/
, /ˌɡɑnəˈkeɪləˌsaɪn//ˌɡɑnəˈkæləˌsaɪn//ˌɡɑnəˈkeɪləsən//ˌɡɑnəˈkæləsən/ΚΠ
1870 H. A. Nicholson Man. Zool. 74 This system of tubes constitutes what is known as the system of the ‘gonocalycine canals’.
gonocheme n.
Brit. /ˈɡɒnə(ʊ)kiːm/
, /ˈɡɒnə(ʊ)kiːm/U.S. /ˈɡɑnəˌkim/
Zoology (see quot. 18711). [ < gono- comb. form + ancient Greek ὄχημα vehicle.] /ˈɡɑnəˌkim/ΚΠ
1871 G. J. Allman Monogr. Gymnoblastic Hydroids p. xv Gonocheme..a medusiform planoblast which gives origin directly to the generative elements.
1871 G. J. Allman Monogr. Gymnoblastic Hydroids 76 The medusa, whether gonocheme or blastocheme, shows [etc.].
gonoˈchoric adj.
Brit. /ˌɡɒnə(ʊ)ˈkɔːrɪk/
, /ˌɡɒnə(ʊ)ˈkɔːrɪk/U.S. /ˌɡɑnəˈkɔrɪk/
/ˌɡɑnəˈkɔrɪk/ΚΠ
1950 Biol. Abstr. 24 2706/1 Spp. with present haploid hermaphroditism might have been derived from gonoch [o] ric ancestors.
1951 Biol. Abstr. 25 3378/2 L[ysmata] seticaudata is a protandric hermaphrodite whose sexual periodicity places it physiologically among the gonochoric conditions found in most malacostraceous Crustacea.
1965 G. Bacci Sex Determination vii. 156 Labile gonochoric individuals of the Bonellia type.
ˌgonochoˈristic adj.
Brit. /ˌɡɒnə(ʊ)kəˈrɪstɪk/
, /ˌɡɒnə(ʊ)kəˈrɪstɪk/U.S. /ˌɡɑnəkəˈrɪstɪk/
[After German gonochoristisch (1866 in Haeckel, or earlier).] /ˌɡɑnəkəˈrɪstɪk/ΚΠ
1904 J. McCabe tr. E. Haeckel Wonders of Life 258 The oyster is usually gonochoristic, but sometimes hermaphroditic.
1904 J. McCabe tr. E. Haeckel Wonders of Life 259 Such structures..have clearly been developed from gonochoristic structures in lower forms.
1963 E. Mayr Animal Species & Evol. xi. 316 In many marine invertebrates certain geographic races are gonochoristic, while others are hermaphrodite.
gonoˈchorism n.
Brit. /ˌɡɒnə(ʊ)ˈkɔːrɪz(ə)m/
, /ˌɡɒnə(ʊ)ˈkɔːrɪz(ə)m/U.S. /ˌɡɑnəˈkɔˌrɪz(ə)m/
Biology = diœcism n. [ < German Gonochorismus (E. Haeckel Gen. Morphol. (1866) II. i. 60).] /ˌɡɑnəˈkɔˌrɪz(ə)m/ΚΠ
1876 E. R. Lankester tr. E. Haeckel Hist. Creation I. viii. 175 (heading) Distinction of sexes, or gonochorism.
1965 G. Bacci Sex Determination i. 21 Unisexuality, dioecism or gonochorism indicate that male and female sex organs occur in different individuals, plants or animals. The three terms are almost perfectly equivalent although the last one is mostly used by zoologists.
gonoˈchorist n. /ˌɡɒnə(ʊ)ˈkɔːrɪst/,
Brit. /ˌɡɒnə(ʊ)ˈkɒrɪst/
, /ˌɡɒnə(ʊ)ˈkɒrɪst//ˌɡɒnə(ʊ)ˈkɔːrɪst/U.S. /ˌɡɑnəˈkɔrəst/
a diœcious organism. [ < German Gonochoristus (1866 in Haeckel) < gono- gono- comb. form + ancient Greek χωριστος separated (see choristate adj.).] /ˌɡɑnəˈkɔrəst/ΚΠ
1876 E. R. Lankester tr. E. Haeckel Hist. Creation I. viii. 196 Every organic individual, as a non-hermaphrodite (Gonochoristus), produces within itself only one of two generative substances.]
1904 J. McCabe tr. E. Haeckel Wonders of Life 255 When the ovum and the sperm-cell..are formed in two different individuals (male and female), we call them monosexual, or gonochorists.
1965 G. Bacci Sex Determination iv. 64 Significant genetical work on sex in hermaphrodites and in labile gonochorists is still very scarce.
ˈgonocœl n.
Brit. /ˈɡɒnə(ʊ)siːl/
, /ˈɡɒnə(ʊ)siːl/U.S. /ˈɡɑnəˌsil/
/ˈɡɑnəˌsil/ ˈgonocœle n.
Brit. /ˈɡɒnə(ʊ)siːl/
, /ˈɡɒnə(ʊ)siːl/U.S. /ˈɡɑnəˌsil/
Zoology a body cavity that contains or gives rise to gonads. [ < German Gonocoel (1888 or earlier) < gono- gono- comb. form + -coel -coele comb. form.] /ˈɡɑnəˌsil/ΘΚΠ
the world > animals > animal body > general parts > sexual organs and reproduction > [noun] > sexual organs > cavity that contains gonads
gonocœle1893
gonotome1900
1893 I. K. Funk et al. Standard Dict. Eng. Lang. I Gonocœle.
1900 E. A. Minchin in E. R. Lankester Treat. Zool. II. ii. 35 Each protocœlom is in its nature a gonocœl (Goodrich), that is to say a cœlomic pouch, the epithelial walls of which produce ova or sperm or both.
1940 T. J. Parker & W. A. Haswell Text-bk. Zool. (ed. 6) I. ix. 631 The cœlome consists of the pericardium and the gonocœle.
1967 P. A. Meglitsch Invertebr. Zool. ix. 310 The gonocoel theory visualizes the coelom as arising from the lumen of the gonads.
ˈgonocyte n.
Brit. /ˈɡɒnə(ʊ)sʌɪt/
, /ˈɡɒnə(ʊ)sʌɪt/U.S. /ˈɡɑnəˌsaɪt/
Biology any cell which may potentially undergo meiosis and produce gametes; also, any of the gametes so produced. [ < French gonocyte (1876) < gono- gono- comb. form + -cyte -cyte comb. form.] /ˈɡɑnəˌsaɪt/ΘΚΠ
the world > life > biology > biological processes > procreation or reproduction > reproductive substances or cells > [noun] > parent cell
parent cella1836
mother cell1840
pericytula1876
gonocyte1900
gonotocont1909
intermitotic1942
1900 E. A. Minchin in E. R. Lankester Treat. Zool. II. iii. 60 In sponges generally two classes of tokocytes can be distinguished: first, sexual cells or gonocytes, the mother cells of ova and spermatozoa of the normal type.
1904 J. McCabe tr. E. Haeckel Wonders of Life 254 The two copulating sexual cells (gonocyta).
1956 Nature 21 Jan. 142/1 The conditions which determine the differentiation of indifferent gonocytes in hermaphrodite glands..constitute a major problem in the biology of sexuality.
ˈgonoduct n.
Brit. /ˈɡɒnə(ʊ)dʌkt/
, /ˈɡɒnə(ʊ)dʌkt/U.S. /ˈɡɑnəˌdək(t)/
Zoology in some invertebrates, a duct from a gonad to the exterior through which gametes are discharged. [Compare gonaduct n. at gonad n. Derivatives.] /ˈɡɑnəˌdək(t)/ΚΠ
1893 I. K. Funk et al. Standard Dict. Eng. Lang. I Gonoduct.
1900 E. A. Minchin in E. R. Lankester Treat. Zool. II. ii. 36 The cœlomoducts belonging to gonocœls may be called ‘gonoducts’ (Lankester).
1951 L. H. Hyman Invertebrates II. ix. 50 Coelomate animals may..lack gonoducts and use the nephridia for the discharge of sex cells.
ˈgonomere n.
Brit. /ˈɡɒnə(ʊ)mɪə/
, /ˈɡɒnə(ʊ)mɪə/U.S. /ˈɡɑnəˌmɪ(ə)r/
Cytology Biology any nucleus which, after plasmogamy, coexists with and does not fuse with another nucleus in the same cell. [ < German Gonomer (V. Häcker 1902, in Jenaische Zeitschr. f. Naturwiss. 37 ii. 312) < gono- gono- comb. form + -mer -mere comb. form.] /ˈɡɑnəˌmɪ(ə)r/ΚΠ
1903 Bot. Gaz. June 443 The nuclear stages in which the idiomeres (partial nuclei) and gonomeres (double nuclei) appear are closely related.
1920 W. E. Agar Cytol. 78 In prophase each gonomere forms its chromosomes separately from the other.
gonoˈmeric adj.
Brit. /ˌɡɒnə(ʊ)ˈmɛrɪk/
, /ˌɡɒnə(ʊ)ˈmɛrɪk/U.S. /ˌɡɑnəˈmɛrɪk/
/ˌɡɑnəˈmɛrɪk/ΚΠ
1925 E. B. Wilson Cell (ed. 3) 433 Gonomeric grouping.
goˈnomery n.
Brit. /ɡɒˈnɒməri/
, /ɡɒˈnɒməri/U.S. /ɡoʊˈnɑməri/
a condition characterized by the presence of gonomeres./ɡoʊˈnɑməri/ΚΠ
1920 W. E. Agar Cytol. 78 In the germ-track..evidences of gonomery can be found at a much later stage of development than in the somatic cells.
1969 W. V. Brown & E. M. Bertke Textbk. Cytol. xxii. 531 This condition of gonomery approaches the dikaryotic phase in Basidiomycetes.
ˈgonoplasm n.
Brit. /ˈɡɒnə(ʊ)ˌplaz(ə)m/
, /ˈɡɒnə(ʊ)ˌplaz(ə)m/U.S. /ˈɡɑnəˌplæz(ə)m/
Mycology in some genera of the fungal order Peronosporales, that portion of the contents of the antheridium which passes down the fertilization tube. [ < German Gonoplasma (1884 in the source translated in quot. 1887) < gono- gono- comb. form + Plasma plasm n.] /ˈɡɑnəˌplæz(ə)m/ΚΠ
1887 H. E. F. Garnsey & I. B. Balfour tr. H. A. de Bary Compar. Morphol. & Biol. Fungi 495/2 Gonoplasm, in Peronosporeae: portion of protoplasm of antheridium which passes through the fertilisation~tube and coalesces with the oosphere.
1952 F. L. Wynd tr. E. A. Gäumann Fungi 66 Later the sexually functional cytoplasm accumulates in the central portion, forming the gonoplasm.
ˈgonopore n.
Brit. /ˈɡɒnə(ʊ)pɔː/
, /ˈɡɒnə(ʊ)pɔː/U.S. /ˈɡɑnəˌpɔr/
Zoology a genital pore./ˈɡɑnəˌpɔr/ΚΠ
1897 T. J. Parker & W. A. Haswell Text-bk. Zool. I. vi. 276 In the female [round-worm] the reproductive aperture or gonopore is separate from the anus, and is situated on the ventral surface.
1951 L. H. Hyman Invertebrates II. ix. 50 Male and female gonopores in hermaphroditic species may be separate,..or there may be a common gonopore.
ˌgonoˈsomal adj.
Brit. /ˌɡɒnə(ʊ)ˈsəʊml/
, /ˌɡɒnə(ʊ)ˈsəʊml/U.S. /ˌɡɑnəˈsoʊm(ə)l/
/ˌɡɑnəˈsoʊm(ə)l/ ˈgonosome n.
Brit. /ˈɡɒnə(ʊ)səʊm/
, /ˈɡɒnə(ʊ)səʊm/U.S. /ˈɡɑnəˌsoʊm/
Zoology Allman's name for the collective body of reproductive zooids of a hydrozoan./ˈɡɑnəˌsoʊm/ΚΠ
1870 H. A. Nicholson Man. Zool. I. 26 Another series of reproductive zoöids, collectively called the ‘gonosome’.
1871 G. J. Allman Monogr. Gymnoblastic Hydroids 29 The zooids which compose the gonosome may [etc.].
gonoˈsphaerium n. /ˌɡɒnə(ʊ)ˈsfɛrɪəm/, /ˌɡɑnəˈsfɛriəm/ (pl. gonosphæria) = gonosphere n. [After French gonosphérie (1859 or earlier).]
Brit. /ˌɡɒnə(ʊ)ˈsfɪərɪəm/
, /ˌɡɒnə(ʊ)ˈsfɪərɪəm//ˌɡɒnə(ʊ)ˈsfɛrɪəm/U.S. /ˌɡɑnəˈsfɪriəm/
, /ˌɡɑnəˈsfɪriəm//ˌɡɑnəˈsfɛriəm/ΘΚΠ
the world > plants > particular plants > fungi > [noun] > parts of > reproductive parts
capsule1693
perithecium1800
aecidium1821
hymenium1830
pseudoperidium1832
pseudoperithecium1832
disc1842
trichidium1842
spicule1843
sporophore1849
stylospore1851
pycnide1856
cyst1857
pycnidium1857
basidium1858
cystidium1858
basidiospore1859
conidium1861
pollinarium1861
gonosphere1865
hymenophorum1866
spicula1866
teleutospore1866
promycelium1867
gonosphaerium1873
hymenophore1874
paracyst1874
sterigma1874
pollinodium1875
scolecite1875
uredospore1875
metuloid1879
operculum1879
uredo1879
aecidiospore1880
pycnidiospore1880
uredo-fruit1882
chlamydospore1884
teleutosorus1884
fruitcake1885
ascocarp1887
periplasm1887
pycnospore1887
pyrenocarp1887
macrostylospore1894
autobasidium1895
oidium1895
zygophore1904
aeciospore1905
aecium1905
pycniospore1905
teliospore1905
telium1905
uredinium1905
uredosorus1905
fruit-body1912
sporodochium1913
probasidium1916
fruiting body1918
pycnium1926
holobasidium1928
protoperithecium1937
uredium1937
1873 F. H. Hooker & J. D. Hooker tr. E. Le Maout & J. Decaisne Gen. Syst. Bot. 951 Gonospheria [Fr. Gonosphéries] only differ from oogonia in the condensation of the protoplasm at the centre of the cell.
1878 Napier in Buckland 17th Rep. Salmon Fish 13 The surface of the gonospheria.
ˈgonosphere n.
Brit. /ˈɡɒnə(ʊ)sfɪə/
, /ˈɡɒnə(ʊ)sfɪə/U.S. /ˈɡɑnəˌsfɪ(ə)r/
Botany the irregular globule formed by the condensation of the protoplasm of the oogonium in certain fungi./ˈɡɑnəˌsfɪ(ə)r/ΘΚΠ
the world > plants > particular plants > fungi > [noun] > parts of > reproductive parts
capsule1693
perithecium1800
aecidium1821
hymenium1830
pseudoperidium1832
pseudoperithecium1832
disc1842
trichidium1842
spicule1843
sporophore1849
stylospore1851
pycnide1856
cyst1857
pycnidium1857
basidium1858
cystidium1858
basidiospore1859
conidium1861
pollinarium1861
gonosphere1865
hymenophorum1866
spicula1866
teleutospore1866
promycelium1867
gonosphaerium1873
hymenophore1874
paracyst1874
sterigma1874
pollinodium1875
scolecite1875
uredospore1875
metuloid1879
operculum1879
uredo1879
aecidiospore1880
pycnidiospore1880
uredo-fruit1882
chlamydospore1884
teleutosorus1884
fruitcake1885
ascocarp1887
periplasm1887
pycnospore1887
pyrenocarp1887
macrostylospore1894
autobasidium1895
oidium1895
zygophore1904
aeciospore1905
aecium1905
pycniospore1905
teliospore1905
telium1905
uredinium1905
uredosorus1905
fruit-body1912
sporodochium1913
probasidium1916
fruiting body1918
pycnium1926
holobasidium1928
protoperithecium1937
uredium1937
1865 M. C. Cooke Rust, Smut, Mildew, & Mould 130 The large granules which are contained in the oogonium accumulate at its centre, and form an irregular, somewhat spherical mass, which is called by De Bary a gonosphere.
gonoˈtheca n.
Brit. /ˌɡɒnə(ʊ)ˈθiːkə/
, /ˌɡɒnə(ʊ)ˈθiːkə/U.S. /ˌɡɑnəˈθikə/
Zoology = gonangium n. [Compare scientific Latin Gonotheca, genus name (1808).] /ˌɡɑnəˈθikə/ΚΠ
1861 J. R. Greene Man. Animal Kingdom II. 47 The lower portion of each gonoblastidium forms a sort of peduncle, above which the cuticular investment of its ectoderm becomes separated as an urn-shaped capsule, the ‘gonotheca’.
gonoˈthecal adj.
Brit. /ˌɡɒnə(ʊ)ˈθiːkl/
, /ˌɡɒnə(ʊ)ˈθiːkl/U.S. /ˌɡɑnəˈθik(ə)l/
/ˌɡɑnəˈθik(ə)l/ ˈgonotome n.
Brit. /ˈɡɒnə(ʊ)təʊm/
, /ˈɡɒnə(ʊ)təʊm/U.S. /ˈɡɑnəˌtoʊm/
Zoology a block of tissue within a somite destined to form a gonad; also, any somite that contains a gonad. [ < German Gonotom (J. W. van Wijhe 1889, in Arch. f. mikrosk. Anat. 33 466) < gono- gono- comb. form + -tom -tome comb. form.] /ˈɡɑnəˌtoʊm/ΘΚΠ
the world > animals > animal body > general parts > sexual organs and reproduction > [noun] > sexual organs > cavity that contains gonads
gonocœle1893
gonotome1900
1900 J. S. Kingsley Text Bk. Vertebr. Zool. i. 103 Whether we have metamerically repeated gonotomes, is as yet a disputed question.
1912 J. S. Kingsley Compar. Anat. Vertebr. 319 At one time it was thought that the anlage of the gonad was segmental in character and ‘gonotomes’, comparable to nephrotomes and myotomes, were described.
1969 A. J. Grove et al. Animal Biol. (ed. 8) xvi. 382 [Amphioxus.] For a time each gonotome remains connected to its own somite by a short stalk, but eventually the stalk is severed and in this way a series of young gonads is formed.
gonoˈzooid n. /ˌɡɒnə(ʊ)ˈzəʊɔɪd/, /ˌɡɒnə(ʊ)ˈzuːɪd/, /ˌɡɑnəˈzuˌɔɪd/ Zoology one of the sexual zooids enclosed in certain of the gonophores of the Hydrozoa; also attributive.
Brit. /ˌɡɒnə(ʊ)ˈzuːɔɪd/
, /ˌɡɒnə(ʊ)ˈzuːɔɪd//ˌɡɒnə(ʊ)ˈzəʊɔɪd//ˌɡɒnə(ʊ)ˈzuːɪd/U.S. /ˌɡɑnəˈzoʊˌɔɪd/
, /ˌɡɑnəˈzoʊˌɔɪd//ˌɡɑnəˈzuˌɔɪd/ΚΠ
1870 G. Rolleston Forms Animal Life 254 Such fixed gonozooid forms as the sea fir.
1871 T. R. Jones Gen. Outl. Animal Kingdom (ed. 4) v. 97 The gonozooid, though permanently attached, is furnished with a swimming-bell.
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