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From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]:
Basidium \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.
From WordNet r 1.6 [wn]:
basidium
n : a small club-shaped structure typically bearing four
basidiospores at the ends of minute projections; unique
to basidiomycetes
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