metuloidn.
/ˈmɛtjᵿlɔɪd/, U.S. /ˈmɛtjəˌlɔɪd/ Mycology.
A type of cystidium that is lime-encrusted and granular in appearance.
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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
1879 M. C. Cooke in Grevillea 8 19 The projecting bodies, or metuloids, as they might be termed, are shorter, still narrowed towards each extremity, and externally rough.
1895 M. C. Cooke Introd. Study Fungi v. 42 In the genus Peniophora they [sc. the cystidia] evidently become encrusted with lime and granular..; in this condition they have been called ‘metuloids’.
1920 Ann. Missouri Bot. Garden 7 88 Lloyd has published in his account of this species that it has true metuloids (incrusted cystidia).
1983 S. Plant tr. M. Moser Keys to Agarics & Boleti 47 Often having thick-walled cystidia with crystal heads (metuloids).
1986 Mycotaxon 25 321 Hohenbuehelia is characterised by possession of hymenial metuloids.
This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, December 2001; most recently modified version published online March 2022).
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