synnema

English dictionary entry

Meanings

noun
  1. A large, erect reproductive structure in some fungi, bearing compact conidiophores that fuse together to form a strand with conidia at the end or on the edges.

Word forms

synnema synnemata

Etymology

From syn- + -nema (“filament”).

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