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PYCNIDIUM

\pɪknˈɪdi͡əm], \pɪknˈɪdi‍əm], \p_ɪ_k_n_ˈɪ_d_iə_m]\

Definitions of PYCNIDIUM

2010 - New Age Dictionary Database
1920 - A practical medical dictionary.
1920 - A dictionary of scientific terms.

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In certain fungi, a flask-shaped cavity from the surface of the inner walls of which spores are produced.

2010 - New Age Dictionary Database
By Oddity Software

In botany, the receptacle, in Ascomycetes, in which the gonidia, or stylospores, are produced.

1920 - A practical medical dictionary.
By Stedman, Thomas Lathrop

A small flask-shaped organ or spermogoniurn containing slender filaments which form pycnidiospores or spermatia by abstriction, -a stage in the lifehistory of wheat rust.

1920 - A dictionary of scientific terms.
By Henderson, I. F.; Henderson, W. D.

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