noun
- thread-like structures that anchor non-vascular plants like mosses and liverworts to surfaces and absorb water and nutrients
Usage: botanical
Examples
- The moss attached itself to the rock surface using tiny rhizoids.
- Rhizoids help bryophytes absorb moisture directly from their environment.
- Unlike true roots, rhizoids are simple structures without vascular tissue.
- The liverwort’s rhizoids extended deep into the soil crevices.
- Students examined the rhizoids under a microscope during botany class.
- Rhizoids allow mosses to grow on vertical surfaces like tree bark.