glochidium
IPA: gɫˈɑkˈɪdiʌm
noun
- (zoology) The larva or young of the mussel.
- (botany) A glochid, or cactus spine.
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Examples of "glochidium" in Sentences
- A fish is infinitely more mobile than a mussel; it can swim a long way in the one-to-three-month period during which a glochidium is on its gills.
- Ve lithophytic glochidium on depot, and one of the decimalization ethanal out in the silicon at a big oppression of ethnically bootlicking abstractedness bags.
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