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APOTHECIUM (apothecia)
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Irregular inflected form: apothecia
Dictionary entry overview: What does apothecium mean?
• APOTHECIUM (noun)
The noun APOTHECIUM has 1 sense:
1. a cuplike ascocarp in many lichens and ascomycetous fungi
Familiarity information: APOTHECIUM used as a noun is very rare.
Dictionary entry details
Sense 1
Meaning:
A cuplike ascocarp in many lichens and ascomycetous fungi
Classified under:
Nouns denoting plants
Hypernyms ("apothecium" is a kind of...):
ascocarp (mature fruiting body of an ascomycetous fungus)
Hyponyms (each of the following is a kind of "apothecium"):
elf cup (apothecium of a fungus of the family Pezizaceae)
Derivation:
apothecial (of or relating to the apothecium of some lichens and fungi)
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