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basidiomycotan

basidiomycotan noun: any fungus of the division Basidiomycota.

Noun

basidiomycotan (plural basidiomycotans)

  1. Any fungus of the division Basidiomycota
    • The Ambrosiodmus-Flavodon symbiosis is unique in several aspects: it is the first reported association between an ambrosia beetle and a basidiomycotan fungus; the mycosymbiont grows as hyphae in the mycangia, not as budding pseudo-mycelium; and the mycosymbiont is a white-rot saprophyte rather than...2015 September 15, “New Fungus-Insect Symbiosis: Culturing, Molecular, and Histological Methods Determine Saprophytic Polyporales Mutualists of Ambrosiodmus Ambrosia Beetles”, in PLOS ONE, →DOI

Forms of basidiomycotan

pluralbasidiomycotans

Origin of basidiomycotan

From taxonomic name Basidiomycota + -an.

Questions about basidiomycotan

What does basidiomycotan mean?
Basidiomycotan means any fungus of the division Basidiomycota.
What part of speech is basidiomycotan?
Basidiomycotan is a noun.
What is the plural of basidiomycotan?
The plural of basidiomycotan is basidiomycotans.

Words near basidiomycotan in the dictionary

  1. basidiomyceteous
  2. basidiomycetes
  3. basidiomycetic
  4. basidiomycetous
  5. basidiomycosis
  6. basidiomycotan
  7. basidiomycotans
  8. basidiomycotic
  9. basidiophore
  10. basidiophores
  11. basidiospore

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