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

  • noun An asexually produced fungal spore, formed on a conidiophore.

from The Century Dictionary.

  • noun In fungi, a propagative body which is asexual in its origin and functions.

from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.

  • noun (Bot.) A peculiar kind of reproductive cell found in certain fungi, and often containing zoöspores.

from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.

  • noun A fungal spore produced asexually in a conidiophore.

from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.

  • noun an asexually produced fungal spore formed on a conidiophore

Etymologies

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

[New Latin, from Greek konis, dust.]

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