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Basidium

Basidium Meaning & Definition
Basidium Definition And Meaning

What's The Definition Of Basidium?

[n] a small club-shaped structure typically bearing four basidiospores at the ends of minute projections; unique to basidiomycetes

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See Also | hypobasidium | promycelium | reproductive structure

Basidium In Webster's Dictionary

\Ba*sid"i*um\, n. [NL., dim. of Gr. ? base.] (Bot.) A special oblong or pyriform cell, with slender branches, which bears the spores in that division of fungi called Basidiomycetes, of which the common mushroom is an example.

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