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Definition of Gonimia

Gonimia
Gonimia Go*nim"i*a, n. pl. [NL., fr. Gr. ? productive, fr. ? that which generates.] (Bot.) Bluish green granules which occur in certain lichens, as Collema, Peltigera, etc., and which replace the more usual gonidia.

Meaning of Gonimia from wikipedia

- Friedrich Wallroth in 1825, and supplanted in the 1960s. gonimium Plural gonimia. A now-obsolete, historical term for a lichen cyanobiont. goniocyst A vegetative...