Definitions
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.
- noun A flask-shaped structure containing conidia, found in certain fungi,.
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun In botany, a receptacle in ascomycetous fungi, resembling a perithecium, in which stylospores or pycnospores are produced: same as
clinosporangium . Seestylospore . Also pycnid, pycnide. - noun [capitalized] [NL.] In entomology, a genus of coleopterous insects of the family Tenebrionidæ. Also called
Oochrotus .
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- noun (Bot.) In certain fungi, a flask-shaped cavity from the surface of the inner walls of which spores are produced.
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- noun In certain
fungi , aflask -shapedcavity from the surface of the inner walls of whichspores are produced.
from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
- noun flask-shaped asexual structure containing conidia
Etymologies
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 4th Edition
[New Latin : Greek puknos, thick + Latin -idium, diminutive suff. (from Greek -idion).]
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New Latin, from Ancient Greek.
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