This glossary explains biological, botanical, zoological and mycological terms, as well as terms used in cecidology. It is intended to make the numerous technical terms used in the photo gallery and on the information pages of this website easier to understand.
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Daedaloid
Labyrinthine and convoluted.
Detritus
Fine material produced by the decomposition of animal and plant remains; in water, organic suspended or sinking material is also included.
Dextrinoid
Describing cell walls that turn wine-red in Melzer’s reagent.
Diaspore
Diaspore is the botanical collective term for all dispersal units such as seeds, mericarps, fruits, infructescences, spores, bulbils or other vegetative propagules that serve the dispersal of plants or fungi.
Dikarya
Dikarya is a subkingdom of fungi described in 2007 to reflect the shared characteristics of Ascomycota and Basidiomycota in a taxon encompassing both groups.
Diptera
Diptera (true flies) comprise a species-rich order of insects that includes flies and mosquitoes. Unlike other insects, they possess only two wings instead of four.
Dipterocecidia
Dipterocecidia are plant galls induced by gall midges (Cecidomyiidae).
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