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from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.
- noun An ascus-bearing structure found in ascomycetous fungi.
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun The developed fructification in Ascomycetes, consisting of asci and ascophores.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- noun (Bot.) In ascomycetous fungi, the spherical, discoid, or cup-shaped body within which the asci are collected, and which constitutes the mature fructification. The different forms are known in mycology under distinct names. Called also
spore fruit .
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- noun The
sporocarp of anascomycete , typicallybowl -shaped.
from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
- noun mature fruiting body of an ascomycetous fungus
Etymologies
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asco- + -carp
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