Spherocyst
Definition, Meaning & Examples
Part of speech noun
Quick meaning: Spherocyst is a noun meaning Alternative form of sphaerocyst.
Meaning
Alternative form of sphaerocyst.
Example Sentences
Singer divided the Micacei into Domestiei Sing., with filaments between spherocysts, and Exannulati Lange, where this is not the case.
Hymenophoral trama consisting of a lateral trama which contains few or no spherocysts and is subgelatinous, and a densely compacted mediostratum, the latter containing both single spherocysts or spherocyst nests consisting of[…].
A characteristic feature here is the structure of the fruit-body context containing - besides long, cylindrical hyphae - groups of globular cells (spherocysts) nidulariaceously arranged in its tissue. It is the spherocysts that cause the characteristic friability, that is the pomaceous brittleness of the broken context.
Word Forms
- spherocysts
Related Words
Related dictionary entries include sphaerocyst, cheilocystidium, sphaeroplast, cystidium, oocyst, pleurocystidium.
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