podetium Meaning, Definition & Usage

  1. noun an organ or body resembling a stalk; especially the outgrowth of the thallus of certain lichens on which the ascocarp is borne

WordNet

Po*de"ti*um noun
Etymology
NL., fr. Gr. , , foot.
Wordforms
plural Podetia E Podetiums
Definitions
  1. (Bot.) A stalk which bears the fructification in some lichens, as in the so-called reindeer moss.

Webster 1913