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basidium

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basidium
—basidial, adj.
/beuh sid"ee euhm/, n., pl. basidia /-sid"ee euh/. Mycol.
a special form of sporophore, characteristic of basidiomycetous fungi, on which the sexual spores are borne, usually at the tips of slender projections.
[1855-60; BAS(IS) + -IDIUM]

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      in fungi (kingdom Fungi), the organ in the members of the phylum Basidiomycota (q.v.) that bears sexually reproduced bodies called basidiospores. The basidium serves as the site of karyogamy and meiosis, functions by which sex cells fuse, exchange nuclear material, and divide to reproduce basidiospores.

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