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1. (n.) basidium
a special form of sporophore, characteristic of basidiomycetous fungi, on which the sexual spores are borne at the tips of slender projections.
Etymology: (1855–60; bas (is ) + -idium)
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1. (noun) basidium
a small club-shaped structure typically bearing four basidiospores at the ends of minute projections; unique to basidiomycetes
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1. (noun) basidium
a special oblong or pyriform cell, with slender branches, which bears the spores in that division of fungi called Basidiomycetes, of which the common mushroom is an example
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