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English
Etymology
From stephano- (“wreath”) + -kont (“flagellate”) from Ancient Greek στέφανος (stéphanos, “wreath”) and Ancient Greek κοντός (kontós, “pole”) respectively.
Adjective
stephanokont (not comparable)
- Having a subapical ring of short flagella that are uniform in length.
1966, Robert Francis Scagel, Marine Algae of British Columbia and Northern Washington, page 111:Although Feldmann (1950) believed the stephanokont zoospores were meiospores and would give rise to the Halicystis stage, just as Kornmann had already shown in Derbesia marina, he also considered it probable that at times the zoosporangia might produce mitospores which could give rise directly to Derbesia plants.
1984, Hayden N. Pritchard, Patricia T. Bradt, Biology of nonvascular plants, page 91:Both macandrous and nannandrous species produce stephanokont sperm in specially differentiated segments of the filament called antheridia.
1991, Craig W. Schneider, Richard B.. Searles, Richard B. Searles, Seaweeds of the Southeastern United States: Cape Hatteras to Cape Canaveral, page 89:They reported formation of motile, biflagellate, and stephaokont cells formed in separate gametangia and sporangia on the same plants.
Noun
stephanokont (plural stephanokonts)
- An organelle that is stephanokont.
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