pycnidium

English dictionary entry

Meanings

noun
  1. In certain fungi, a flask-shaped cavity from the surface of the inner walls of which spores are produced.

Word forms

pycnidium pycnidia

Etymology

From New Latin pycnidium, from pycno- (“dense”) + -idium.

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