haptera

English

Etymology

haptein +‎ -era

Noun

haptera

  1. plural of hapteron
    The kelp specimen uses its haptera to anchor itself to the rocks.
    • 1921, Annie Lorrain Smith, Lichens, University press, page 94
      By means of these haptera not only different individuals become united together but instances are given by Sernander in which Cetraria islandica, normally a ground lichen had become epiphytic by attaching itself in this way to the trunk of a tree (Pinus sylvestris).

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