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podetium

American

[puh-dee-shee-uhm, -shuhm] / pəˈdi ʃi əm, -ʃəm /

noun

Botany, Mycology.

(in certain lichens) a stalk bearing an apothecium.
any stalklike elevation.

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Inflected Forms

noun

podetia

plural

Etymology

Origin of podetium

1855–60; < New Latin, equivalent to Greek pod- pod- + New Latin -etium (apparently arbitrarily < Greek -et- or -ēt- + Latin -ium )

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