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noun
A small structure, shaped like a club, found in the Basidiomycota division of fungi, that bears four spores at the tips of small projections.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Topics: biology, mycology, natural-sciences
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noun
a small club-shaped structure typically bearing four basidiospores at the ends of minute projections; unique to basidiomycetes
Definition source: Princeton WordNet 3.0
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Broader terms: reproductive structure
Narrower terms: promycelium
History
A Latinized form of Ancient Greek βάσις (básis, “base”) + -idium.
Across languages
12 source translations are retained for this English entry.
