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BASIDIUM (basidia)
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Dictionary entry overview: What does basidium mean?
• BASIDIUM (noun)
The noun BASIDIUM has 1 sense:
1. a small club-shaped structure typically bearing four basidiospores at the ends of minute projections; unique to basidiomycetes
Familiarity information: BASIDIUM used as a noun is very rare.
Dictionary entry details
Sense 1
Meaning:
A small club-shaped structure typically bearing four basidiospores at the ends of minute projections; unique to basidiomycetes
Classified under:
Nouns denoting plants
Hypernyms ("basidium" is a kind of...):
reproductive structure (the parts of a plant involved in its reproduction)
Meronyms (parts of "basidium"):
hypobasidium (special cell constituting the base of the basidium in various fungi especially of the order Tremellales)
Hyponyms (each of the following is a kind of "basidium"):
promycelium (the basidium of various fungi)
Derivation:
basidial (relating to or characterized by basidia)
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