Crossword-Solution: APOTHECIUM
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| Word | Word Type | Definition |
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| Apothecium | n. | The ascigerous fructification of lichens, forming masses of various shapes. |
We have 3 clues for the answer “APOTHECIUM”
| Clue | Answers |
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| CUP-shaped fruit body | 1 answer |
| CUPLIKE fruit | 1 answer |
| SAUCER-like fruit of fungi | 1 answer |
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Hint 1 meaning
One who, or that which, eats.
Hint 2 anagram
EETAR
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greedy person
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Sentences with APOTHECIUM (5)
Nylander called the apothecium pale within, but forms with red-brown hypothecia are admitted by later writers.
These asci are variously shaped bodies and are known in different orders by different names, such as ascoma, apothecium, perithecium, and receptacle.
Etym: [NL.] (Bot.) Defn: An apothecium in certain lichens, having a spherical surface marked with spiral or concentric ridges and furrows.
Various types of ascocarp are characteristic of the different divisions of the Carpoascomycetes: the cleistothecium, apothecium and perithecium.
Owing to the shape of the fruit-body many of these forms are known as cup-fungi, the cup or apothecium often attaining a large size, sometimes several inches across (fig.