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AECIUM (aecia)
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Irregular inflected form: aecia
Dictionary entry overview: What does aecium mean?
• AECIUM (noun)
The noun AECIUM has 1 sense:
1. fruiting body of some rust fungi bearing chains of aeciospores
Familiarity information: AECIUM used as a noun is very rare.
Dictionary entry details
Sense 1
Meaning:
Fruiting body of some rust fungi bearing chains of aeciospores
Classified under:
Nouns denoting plants
Hypernyms ("aecium" is a kind of...):
fruiting body (an organ specialized for producing spores)
Holonyms ("aecium" is a part of...):
rust; rust fungus (any of various fungi causing rust disease in plants)
Derivation:
aecial (of or belonging to an aecium)
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