Pseudothecium
Definition & Meaning
Part of speech noun
Quick meaning: Pseudothecium is a noun meaning 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.
Meaning
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.
Word Forms
- pseudothecia
Related Words
Related dictionary entries include cleistothecium, perithecium, hypothecium, thecium, pseudoaethalium, unitunicate.
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