podetium
American
[puh-dee-shee-uhm, -shuhm]
/ pəˈdi ʃi əm, -ʃəm /
noun
Botany, Mycology.
PLURAL
podetia-
(in certain lichens) a stalk bearing an apothecium.
-
any stalklike elevation.
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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