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basidium |
2 definitions found 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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