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Rot :: Rot (n.) A disease or decay in fruits, leaves, or wood, supposed to be caused by minute fungi. See Bitter rot, Black rot, etc., below..

Conidium :: Conidium (n.) A peculiar kind of reproductive cell found in certain fungi, and often containing zoospores..

Peronate :: Peronate (a.) A term applied to the stipes or stalks of certain fungi which are covered with a woolly substance which at length becomes powdery.

Angiosporous :: Angiosporous (a.) Having spores contained in cells or thecae, as in the case of some fungi..

Floccus :: Floccus (n.) A woolly filament sometimes occuring with the sporules of certain fungi.

Pileus :: Pileus (n.) The expanded upper portion of many of the fungi. See Mushroom.

Mildew :: Mildew (n.) A growth of minute powdery or webby fungi, whitish or of different colors, found on various diseased or decaying substances..

Fungiform :: Fungiform (a.) Shaped like a fungus or mushroom.

Mycose :: Mycose (n.) A variety of sugar, isomeric with sucrose and obtained from certain lichens and fungi. Called also trehalose..

Synarchy :: Synapticula (n.) One of numerous calcareous processes which extend between, and unite, the adjacent septa of certain corals, especially of the fungian corals..

Epanthous :: Epanthous (a.) Growing upon flowers; -- said of certain species of fungi.

Fungia :: Fungia (n.) A genus of simple, stony corals; -- so called because they are usually flat and circular, with radiating plates, like the gills of a mushroom. Some of them are eighteen inches in diameter..

Fungibles :: Fungibles (n. pl.) Movable goods which may be valued by weight or measure, in contradistinction from those which must be judged of individually..

Toadstool :: Toadstool (n.) A name given to many umbrella-shaped fungi, mostly of the genus Agaricus. The species are almost numberless. They grow on decaying organic matter..

Involucre :: Involucre (n.) The peridium or volva of certain fungi. Called also involucrum.

Saprophyte :: Saprophyte (n.) Any plant growing on decayed animal or vegetable matter, as most fungi and some flowering plants with no green color, as the Indian pipe..

Zygosperm :: Zygosperm (n.) A spore formed by the union of the contents of two similar cells, either of the same or of distinct individual plants. Zygosperms are found in certain orders of algae and fungi..

Gasteromycetes :: Gasteromycetes (n. pl.) An order of fungi, in which the spores are borne inside a sac called the peridium, as in the puffballs..

Mycology :: Mycology (n.) That branch of botanical science which relates to the musgrooms and other fungi.

Spermatium :: Spermatium (n.) One of the motionless spermatozoids in the conceptacles of certain fungi.

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