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sporangiumlike

sporangiumlike adjective: resembling a sporangium.

Adjective

sporangiumlike (comparative more sporangiumlike, superlative most sporangiumlike)

  1. Resembling a sporangium.
    • Thus plasmodiocarps may have a variety of shapes even in the same fruiting, varying from sporangiumlike spheres to a network of tubes.1965, C. G. Ainsworth, Frederick K[roeber] Sparrow, Alfred S. Sussman, editors, The Fungi: An Advanced Treatise, volume IVB (A Taxonomic Review with Keys: Basidomycetes and Lower Fungi), New York...

Forms of sporangiumlike

comparativemore sporangiumlike
superlativemost sporangiumlike
alternative formsporangium-like

Questions about sporangiumlike

What does sporangiumlike mean?
Sporangiumlike means resembling a sporangium.
What part of speech is sporangiumlike?
Sporangiumlike is an adjective.

Words near sporangiumlike in the dictionary

  1. sporangiophores
  2. sporangiophorous
  3. sporangiospore
  4. sporangiospores
  5. sporangium
  6. sporangiumlike
  7. sporation
  8. spore
  9. spore case
  10. spore cases
  11. spore fruit

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