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basidiomycetes

basidiomycetes is the plural of basidiomycete.

Meaning of basidiomycete

Noun

basidiomycete (plural basidiomycetes)

  1. Any fungus of the phylum Basidiomycota, that produces sexual spores on a basidium.
    • The result is that over all these initiatives in classification have hovered the spectres of basidiomycete, and especially ascomycete, taxonomy.1996, Brian Sutton, A Century of Mycology, page 135

Questions about basidiomycetes

What is basidiomycetes the plural of?
Basidiomycetes is the plural of basidiomycete.

Words near basidiomycetes in the dictionary

  1. basidiome
  2. basidiomes
  3. basidiomycetal
  4. basidiomycete
  5. basidiomyceteous
  6. basidiomycetes
  7. basidiomycetic
  8. basidiomycetous
  9. basidiomycosis
  10. basidiomycotan
  11. basidiomycotans

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