fruit body

noun

1. See fruiting body
   a variant of fruiting body

Example Sentences

The fruit-body is of complicated structure, but its early stages of development are not known.

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In the Helvellaceae there is no apothecium but a large irregular fruit body which at maturity bears the asci on its surface.

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In one genus there is no fruit body, but the spines themselves extend downward from the rotten wood, the genus Mucronella.

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Hymenium within a closed fruit-body, which does not open until the spores are ripe; saprophytes.

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Parasites without fruit-body; basidia exposed on surface of host.

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