noun
- a rootlike structure in mosses, liverworts, and fungi that serves to anchor the organism and absorb water and nutrients
Usage: biology
Examples
- The moss attached itself to the rock surface using tiny rhizoids.
- Rhizoids help fungi absorb nutrients from decaying organic matter.
- Unlike true roots, rhizoids lack vascular tissue.
- The liverwort’s rhizoids anchored it firmly to the soil.
- Students examined the rhizoids under a microscope during biology class.
- Rhizoids are essential for the survival of many non-vascular plants.