germ tube
noun
botany a tube produced by a germinating spore, such as the pollen tube produced by a pollen grain
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Then it isolates itself from the germ-tube by a septum, and takes all the essential characteristics of the parent conidium.
Fungi: Their Nature and Uses | Mordecai Cubitt CookeThe oospore on germination usually gives origin to a zoosporangium, but may form directly a germ tube which infects the host.
The germ tube is rather smaller at its base than further on.
Fungi: Their Nature and Uses | Mordecai Cubitt Cooke
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