-idiumとは 意味・読み方・使い方

接尾辞

-idium

1. Forms names of body parts, mainly of invertebrate animals, fungi and plants.
   1. (most common) reproductive organs, gametes, and early life stages

      basidium, spermidium, planidium, meconidium, glochidium

   2. sensory organs, mainly of arthropods

      scolopidium, ommatidium, (not arthropodan) sphaeridium

   3. various segments (arthropods) and functional processes

      stethidium, chilidium, limbidium, phyllidium, gonidium

   4. respiratory organs

      ctenidium, taenidium

2. (marginal) cellular compartments

   chromidium, cytoophidium

派生語

• gnathidium
• nephridium

参考

• soredium
• isidium
• ascidium
• aecidium