Ostiole
Definition, Meaning & Examples
Part of speech noun
Quick meaning: Ostiole is a noun meaning (mycology) A small hole or opening through which certain fungi release their mature spores.
Meaning
(mycology) A small hole or opening through which certain fungi release their mature spores.
More Meanings
- (botany) A similar hole or opening in plants, such as the opening of the involuted fig inflorescence through which fig wasps enter to pollinate and breed.
Example Sentences
The Erysiphacae may possibly have given rise to the Laboulbeniales, the only other group in which a single daughter cell of the oogonium is responsible for the asci, and perhaps to the lower Pyrenomycetes also; these, like the Erysiphaceae, have regularly arranged asci, and in Chaetomium fimete the perithecium is without an ostiole.
Word Forms
- ostioles
Related Words
Related dictionary entries include exostome, ostium, oocyst, perithecium, ozopore, oogonium.
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