asci
Americannoun
noun
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Many ascomycetes produce their asci in cups, and in the case of the beech orange, the cups are the orange dimples of the golf ball.
From Scientific American
Some asci have elastic rings at their tips that only allow spores out once a set pressured is reached.
From Scientific American
The conclusion of the epitaph is perplexing: it states that her husband dedicated it to her and her son's memory—under "the axe"—"Sub asci� dedicavit."
From Project Gutenberg
Other series of modifications arise in which the tissues corresponding to the stroma invest the sporogenous hyphal ends, and thus enclose the spores, asci, basidia, &c., in a cavity.
From Project Gutenberg
Exoascine�, a family of parasitic ascomycetous Fungi, distinguished by the absence of any definite fruit-body, the asci being produced in a layer on the surface of the host.
From Project Gutenberg
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