Definitions

from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.

  • noun A fruiting body that bears basidia, characteristic of many basidiomycetes.

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  • noun mycology A mushroom which has basidia.

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  • noun the fruiting body of a basidiomycete which bears its spores on special cells

Etymologies

from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 4th Edition

[basidi(um) + –carp.]

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Examples

  • As the small herbivore gnawed deeper into the basidiocarp, one of these tendrils, shivering slightly, rose upward.

    Drowning World Foster, Alan Dean, 1946- 2003

  • Slowly, very slowly, he withdrew his fingers from the vicinity of the damaged basidiocarp.

    Drowning World Foster, Alan Dean, 1946- 2003

  • As the small herbivore gnawed deeper into the basidiocarp, one of these tendrils, shivering slightly, rose upward.

    Drowning World Foster, Alan Dean, 1946- 2003

  • Slowly, very slowly, he withdrew his fingers from the vicinity of the damaged basidiocarp.

    Drowning World Foster, Alan Dean, 1946- 2003

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