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PROMYCELIUM (promycelia)

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does promycelium mean? 

PROMYCELIUM (noun)
  The noun PROMYCELIUM has 1 sense:

1. the basidium of various fungiplay

  Familiarity information: PROMYCELIUM used as a noun is very rare.


 Dictionary entry details 


PROMYCELIUM (noun)


Sense 1

Meaning:

The basidium of various fungi

Classified under:

Nouns denoting plants

Hypernyms ("promycelium" is a kind of...):

basidium (a small club-shaped structure typically bearing four basidiospores at the ends of minute projections; unique to basidiomycetes)


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