Definitions
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.
- noun A specialized fungal hypha that produces conidia.
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun In fungi, a conidium-bearing stalk or branch of the mycelium. See
sporophore .
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- noun a specialized fungal hypha (a branch of the fungal mycelium) that produces conidia.
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- noun A
fungal hypha that producesconidia .
from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
- noun a specialized fungal hypha that produces conidia
Etymologies
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 4th Edition
[conidi(um) + –phore.]
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reesetee commented on the word conidiophore
A specialized fungal hypha that produces conidia (asexually produced fungal spores).
February 9, 2008