A hair on the surface of leaf or stem, or any modification of a hair, as a minute scale, or star, or gland. The sporangia of ferns are believed to be of the nature of trichomes.
an epidermal outgrowth, e.g. a hair (branched or unbranched), a papilla.
in Cyanophyta; the cells making up a filament
n. (Gr. trichoma, a growth of hair) an outgrowth of the plant epidermis, either hairs or scales; a hair tuft; any hairlike outgrowth of the epidermis.
Epidermal outgrowth eg. leaf hair. In bacteriology, generally equivalent to a filament.
Single- or many-celled outgrowth from the epidermis of a plant. A plant hair.
A hair or hair like gland on the surface or a structure such as a leaf or stem.
an outgrowth from an epidermis; a hair or scale which may be unicellular or multicellular, branched or unbranched, secretory, absorbing or non-functional.
A filament of a blue-green alga or cyanobacterium
TRI-koam Outgrowth of a plant's epidermis that protects. 537
(Gr. trichoma, a growth of hair) A short filament of cells. See hair.
A minute outgrowth from the epidermis, variable in size and complexity, but including hairs, scales, and glandular hairs, rather th Parent Term: Hairs Difficulty Level
The scales or hairs which all bromeliads are absorbing organs. These also give plants such as Tillandsias their silvery or fuzzy look.
Trichomes, from the Greek meaning "growth of hair", are fine outgrowths or appendages on plants and protists. These are of diverse structure and function. Examples are hairs, glandular hairs, scales, and papillae.
