sterigma
Americannoun
plural
sterigmatanoun
Other Word Forms
Etymology
Origin of sterigma
1865–70; < New Latin < Greek stḗrigma a support, equivalent to stērig-, base of stērízein to support + -ma noun suffix
Example Sentences
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D, Passage of a nucleus through the sterigma into the basidiospore.
From Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 11, Slice 3 "Frost" to "Fyzabad" by Various
The hymenium is universal; the basidia round and two-lobed, each lobe bearing a single one-spored sterigma.
From The Mushroom, Edible and Otherwise Its Habitat and its Time of Growth by Hard, Miron Elisha
These are filled with protoplasm, swell more and more, and, after some time, separate themselves by a partition from the sterigma into independent cells, spores, or conidia.
From Fungi: Their Nature and Uses by Cooke, M. C. (Mordecai Cubitt)
Each projection or sterigma soon swells at its extremity into a bladder-like body, the young spore, and, as they enlarge, the protoplasm of the basidium is passed into them.
From The Mushroom, Edible and Otherwise Its Habitat and its Time of Growth by Hard, Miron Elisha
Every sterigma at first produces at its point a little round protuberance, which, with a strong narrow basis, rests upon the sterigma.
From Fungi: Their Nature and Uses by Cooke, M. C. (Mordecai Cubitt)
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