goniotropous (goniotropus)

[ and the others lateral, in distinction from pleurotropous, where the sides occupy corresponding positions: applied to the stems of Selaginella, etc. goniozygomatic (gō"ni-ō-zi-gō-mat'ik), a. [ Gonoblastidium of Athorybia ro sacea , bearing three hydro cysts, a , a gynophore, b , and two androphores, c. (Enlarged.) tion, seed, + βλαστός, germ, + dim. term. -ίδιον.] In Hydrozoa, an offshoot or a proce which bears the reproductive receptacles or gonophores, and the bunch of gonophores so borne. When it is branched, and the male and female gonophores are borne upon different branches, those bearing the former are called androphores, those bearing the latter gynophores. The go no blastidium is called by Allman blastostyle. In Athorybia, groups of gonophores... are borne upon a common stem, and constitute a gonoblastidi IMG:content-2500.jpg:[blocks in formation] Huxley, Anat. Invert., p. 130.