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. See stylospore. 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, a flask-shaped cavity from the surface of the inner walls of which spores 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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