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pseudothecia

pseudothecia is the plural of pseudothecium.

Meaning of pseudothecium

Noun

pseudothecium (plural pseudothecia)

  1. An ascocarp resembling a perithecium but whose asci are not regularly organised into a hymenium and are bitunicate, having a double wall which expands when it takes up water and shoots the enclosed spores out suddenly to disperse them.

Questions about pseudothecia

What is pseudothecia the plural of?
Pseudothecia is the plural of pseudothecium.

Words near pseudothecia in the dictionary

  1. pseudotetraploidy
  2. pseudothalidomide syndrome
  3. pseudothalli
  4. pseudothalline
  5. pseudothallus
  6. pseudothecia
  7. pseudothecium
  8. pseudothelphusid
  9. pseudothelphusids
  10. pseudotherapeutic
  11. pseudothermal

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