basidia

American  

[buh-sid-ee-uh] / bəˈsɪd i ə /

noun

1. plural of basidium.

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Example Sentences

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.

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Exobasidiine�, a family of parasitic basidiomycetous Fungi, resembling the Exoascine� in most respects, but producing basidia in place of asci, a remarkable instance of parallel evolution.

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Saccardo, in defining the terms which he employs, accepts the term spores as applicable exclusively to the naked spores supported on basidia, as found in the Basidiomycete�.

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As the spores approach maturity, the connection between their contents and the contents of the basidia diminishes and ultimately ceases.

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This genus resembles Clavaria, but is identified by being somewhat gelatinous and viscid when moist and rather horn-like when dry, but especially by its two-lobed basidia.

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