sterigma
noun
a small stalk that bears a sporangium, a conidium, or especially a basidiospore.
sterigmata
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pluralof sterigma.plural
The grammatical form denoting more than one person, place, thing, or idea.
Example Sentences
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These, when ripe, are cast off from the sterigmata.
From The Elements of Bacteriological Technique A Laboratory Guide for Medical, Dental, and Technical Students. Second Edition Rewritten and Enlarged. by J. W. H. (John William Henry) Eyre
Organs resembling persistent decurrent footstalks, upon which leaves of spruces, etc., stand; sterigmata.
From Handbook of the Trees of New England by Lorin Low Dame
The basidia are nearly round with four rather stout, elongated sterigmata, spores very nearly round.
From The Mushroom, Edible and Otherwise Its Habitat and its Time of Growth by Miron Elisha Hard
Autobasidiomycetes.—In this by far the larger division of the Basidiomycetes the basidia are undivided and the four basidiospores are borne on short sterigmata nearly always at the apex of the basidium.
From Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 11, Slice 3 "Frost" to "Fyzabad" by Various
The rayed divergent protuberances are the direct producers and bearers of the propagating cells, spores, or conidia, and are called sterigmata.
From Fungi: Their Nature and Uses by M. C. (Mordecai Cubitt) Cooke
