Definition of Elaiosome. Meaning of Elaiosome. Synonyms of Elaiosome

- Elaiosomes (Ancient Gr****: ἔλαιον élaion "oil" + σόμα sóma "body") are fleshy structures that are attached to the seeds of many plant species. The elaiosome...
- worldwide distribution. Most myrmecochorous plants produce seeds with elaiosomes, a term encomp****ing various external appendages or "food bodies" rich...
- flowering plants, the diaspore is a seed and fruit together, or a seed and elaiosome. In a few plants, the diaspore is most or all of the plant, and is known...
- morphologically in the presence of more pulp, an aril, and sometimes an elaiosome (primarily for ants), which are other fleshy structures. Epizoochory occurs...
- different quantity of seeds. The seeds are black grains with one white elaiosome of variable size. The seeds are dis****d through myrmecochory; that is...
- biting off the seed with its elaiosome and then carrying the seed away for about 100 m. There they chew off the elaiosome and abandon the seed which is...
- source for Māori. The washed arils were called koroi and were eaten raw. Elaiosome, fleshy structures attached to the seeds of many plant species Galbulus...
- In myrmecochory, seeds such as those of Chelidonium majus have a hard coating and an attached oil body, an elaiosome, for dispersal by ants....
- their nest by sinking their jaws in the fleshy elaiosome. Once in the underground nests, the elaiosome is consumed. The smooth and hard seeds that remain...
- species such as Diapheromera femorata have fleshy projections resembling elaiosomes (fleshy structures sometimes attached to seeds) that attract ants. When...