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A Grammatical Dictionary of Botanical Latin

 
tyl-, tylo-, -tylus,-i (s.m.II): in Gk. comp. callose, knobbed, knotted, padded [> Gk. tylos (s.m.II) or tylE (s.f.I) a knot or callus; anything rising like a lump, knot, knob; a callus, pad];

- tylarus,-i (s.m.II), abl. sg. tylaro, the pad present on the undersurface of a bird's toe.

- tylaster: a small spicule of sponges with the ray ends knobbed.

- Tylosaurus,-i (s.m.II), abl. sg. Tylosauro: a genus of dinosaurs with limbs that function as paddles.

- tylotatus,-a,-um (adj.A): having knobs at both ends, as in the tylotate spicule of a sponge.

- tylosis,-is (s.f.III), abl. sg. tylose: callosity, a (diseased, unnatural, unusual) thickening and hardening of an organ or body part; a protrusion from a plant parenchyma cell into an adjacent tracheary element.

Possibly the fungus genera: Tylochytrium (Chytridiales); Tylodon; Tylomyces; Tylophoma, Tylophorellomyces; Tylopilus; Tylosperma, Tylostoma.

 

A work in progress, presently with preliminary A through R, and S, and with S (in part) through Z essentially completed.
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