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fissitunicate

fissitunicate adjective: having two layers that separate during ascus dehiscence.

Adjective

fissitunicate (not comparable)

  1. Having two layers that separate during ascus dehiscence.
    • The fissitunicate ascus dehiscence, referred to as pseudofissitunicate in unitunicate ascomycetes by Eriksson [81 ], was observed in Calosphaeria africana [7 ].2015 December 24, “Phylogenetic Reconstruction of the Calosphaeriales and Togniniales Using Five Genes and Predicted RNA Secondary Structures of ITS, and Flabellascus tenuirostris gen. et sp. nov.”...

Origin of fissitunicate

From fissi- + tunicate.

Words formed from fissitunicate

Questions about fissitunicate

What does fissitunicate mean?
Fissitunicate means having two layers that separate during ascus dehiscence.
What part of speech is fissitunicate?
Fissitunicate is an adjective.

Words near fissitunicate in the dictionary

  1. fissipede
  2. fissipedes
  3. fissipeds
  4. fissirostral
  5. fissis
  6. fissitunicate
  7. fissive
  8. fissle
  9. fissled
  10. fissling
  11. fissula ante fenestram

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