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STERIGMA

\stˈɛɹɪɡmə], \stˈɛɹɪɡmə], \s_t_ˈɛ_ɹ_ɪ_ɡ_m_ə]\

Definitions of STERIGMA

1920 - A practical medical dictionary.
1920 - A dictionary of scientific terms.
1920 - A dictionary of scientific terms (6th edition)
1908 - Chambers's Twentieth Century Dictionary of the English Language
1916 - Appleton's medical dictionary

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In botany, the stalk which bears the gonidium or spore in fungi.

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

A slender filament arising from the basidium, and giving rise to spores by abstriction.

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

[Greek] A slender filament arising from the basidium, and giving rise to spores by abstriction (bot.).

1920 - A dictionary of scientific terms (6th edition)
By J.H. Kenneth

st[=e]-rig'ma, n. (bot.) a stalk or support.--adj. STERIGMAT'IC. [Gr. st[=e]rigma, a prop.]

1908 - Chambers's Twentieth Century Dictionary of the English Language
By Thomas Davidson

Any of the radially arranged growths on the surface of conidia of aspergilli. [Gr.]

1916 - Appleton's medical dictionary
By Smith Ely Jelliffe

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