Of a lichen or fungus: having fruiting bodies in which the spore-bearing surface is enclosed or covered. Also: designating such a fruiting body.

Botany. Of a crust-like structure like tartar: descriptive of certain lichens.

Having the form of a nucleus or kernel; of a rounded shape. Also (Botany: (esp. of the apothecia of certain lichens) globose. Now rare.

Of, relating to, or typical of a type of lichen characterized by pustulate or pitted shields (formerly regarded as belonging to a distinct genus Vario…

pertaining to, or of the nature of, a hypothallus.

of or pertaining to gonidia.

Having a naked fruit; applied to those lichens in which the apothecia are open or expanded, or to a fructification of this character.

In gonimic layer, stratum (= modern Latin stratum gonimon) originally a synonym of ‘gonidial layer’. Now in narrowed sense, the adjective being…

Bearing or containing a nucleus or nuclei; nucleate, nucleated.

Having glebulæ or small roundish elevations, as the thalli of some lichens.

Botany. Applied to lichens in which the gonidia are arranged in one or more distinct layers within the thallus; opposed to homœomerous.

Botany. Applied to lichens in which the gonidia and hyphae are distributed uniformly through the thallus: opposed to heteromerous.

Of the nature of a crust; crustaceous; esp. designating a lichen having a thin, closely adhering thallus (now more common than crustaceous in this…

Having a scyphus or scyphi.

Of or pertaining to an apothecium.

of the nature of, pertaining to, a soredium.

Of a crustose lichen thallus: more or less disc-shaped, with lobes around the edge; (of a lichen) having such a thallus.

of or pertaining to an isidium.