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BASIDIOSPORE
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Dictionary entry overview: What does basidiospore mean?
• BASIDIOSPORE (noun)
The noun BASIDIOSPORE has 1 sense:
1. a sexually produced fungal spore borne on a basidium
Familiarity information: BASIDIOSPORE used as a noun is very rare.
Dictionary entry details
Sense 1
Meaning:
A sexually produced fungal spore borne on a basidium
Classified under:
Nouns denoting plants
Hypernyms ("basidiospore" is a kind of...):
spore (a small usually single-celled asexual reproductive body produced by many nonflowering plants and fungi and some bacteria and protozoans and that are capable of developing into a new individual without sexual fusion)
Derivation:
basidiosporous (of or relating to or characterized by spores produced by basidia)
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