Meaning of rhabdiferous | Babel Free

Definitions

Of a sponge cell, having many rodlike inclusions and secreting mucopolysaccharide.

not-comparable

Examples

“As Huxley had concluded, the choanocytes derived from the original sponge tissue, as did the collencytes. The glandular and rhabdiferous cells, on the other hand, derived from the archeocytes.”

“So far no indisputable function has been ascribed to any of the following cell types except rhabdiferous cells.”

“There is now good evidence that many special cells in this broadly descriptive category are functionally homologous; these include rhabdiferous cells [...]”

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