ascoma

American  

[a-skoh-muh] / æˈskoʊ mə /

noun

Mycology.

• ascomata
  plural

1. a fruiting body that bears asci.

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Other Word Forms

Noun Inflected Forms

• ascomata
  plural

Etymology

Origin of ascoma

From New Latin; see origin at ascus, -oma

Example Sentences

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ascoma

Each oar-port was protected by an ascoma or leather bag, which fitted over the oar, closing the aperture against the wash of the sea without impeding the action of the oar.

From Boating by Woodgate, W. B.

These asci are variously shaped bodies and are known in different orders by different names, such as ascoma, apothecium, perithecium, and receptacle.

From The Mushroom, Edible and Otherwise Its Habitat and its Time of Growth by Hard, Miron Elisha

A stout, fleshy plant, stipitate, three to five inches high, bearing a broad, much contorted, brown ascoma.

From The Mushroom, Edible and Otherwise Its Habitat and its Time of Growth by Hard, Miron Elisha