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Basidium

//bəˈsɪdɪəm// noun

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Noun
  1. 1
    A small structure, shaped like a club, found in the Basidiomycota division of fungi, that bears four spores at the tips of small projections.

    "The walls of these scleroid basidia often reach 1 μm or more in thickness and the walls stain deeply with congo red."

  2. 2
    a small club-shaped structure typically bearing four basidiospores at the ends of minute projections; unique to basidiomycetes wordnet

Etymology

A Latinized form of Ancient Greek βάσις (básis, “base”) + -idium.

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