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basidia

basidia is the plural of basidium.

Meaning of basidium

Noun

basidium (plural basidia)

  1. A small structure, shaped like a club, found in the Basidiomycota division of fungi, that bears four spores at the tips of small projections.
    • The walls of these scleroid basidia often reach 1 μm or more in thickness and the walls stain deeply with congo red.1981, Timothy J. Baroni, A Revision of the Genus Rhodocybe Maire (Agaricales), page 24

Questions about basidia

What is basidia the plural of?
Basidia is the plural of basidium.

Words near basidia in the dictionary

  1. basicrania
  2. basicranial
  3. basicranium
  4. basics
  5. basid
  6. basidia
  7. basidial
  8. basidiate
  9. basidiobolaceous
  10. basidiobolomycosis
  11. basidiocarp

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