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Ascospore :: Ascospore (n.) One of the spores contained in the asci of lichens and fungi. [See Illust. of Ascus..

Mucor :: Mucor (n.) A genus of minute fungi. The plants consist of slender threads with terminal globular sporangia; mold.

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

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..

Sclerotium :: Sclerotium (n.) A hardened body formed by certain fungi, as by the Claviceps purpurea, which produces ergot..

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

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

Fungian :: Fungian (n.) One of the Fungidae.

Byssus :: Byssus (n.) An obsolete name for certain fungi composed of slender threads.

Schizomycetes :: Schizomycetes (n. pl.) An order of Schizophyta, including the so-called fission fungi, or bacteria. See Schizophyta, in the Supplement..

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

Touchwood :: Touchwood (n.) Dried fungi used as tinder; especially, the Polyporus igniarius..

Polyporus :: Polyporus (n.) A genus of fungi having the under surface full of minute pores; also, any fungus of this genus..

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

Boletus :: Boletus (n.) A genus of fungi having the under side of the pileus or cap composed of a multitude of fine separate tubes. A few are edible, and others very poisonous..

Thallogen :: Thallogen (n.) One of a large class or division of the vegetable kingdom, which includes those flowerless plants, such as fungi, algae, and lichens, that consist of a thallus only, composed of cellular tissue, or of a congeries of cells, or even of separate cells, and never show a distinction into root, stem, and leaf..

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

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..

Fungivorous :: Fungivorous (a.) Eating fungi; -- said of certain insects and snails.

Peziza :: Peziza (n.) A genus of fungi embracing a great number of species, some of which are remarkable for their regular cuplike form and deep colors..

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