Crossword-Solution: BASIDIUM
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| Word | Word Type | Definition |
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| Basidium | n. | 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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| BASIDION | 1 answer |
| unique to basidiomycetes | 1 answer |
| FUNGUS part | 16 answers |
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Hint 1 meaning
An inflammatory disease of the skin, characterized by the
presence of redness and itching, an eruption of small vesicles, and the
discharge of a watery exudation, which often dries up, leaving the skin
covered with crusts; -- called also tetter, milk crust, and salt rheum.
Hint 2 anagram
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eruption
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All of the group are characterized by the production of spores at the top of special cells known as basidia,[8] the number produced upon a single basidium varying from a single one to several.
These are at first all alike, but later some of them become club-shaped, and develop at the end several (usually four) little points, at the end of which spores are formed in exactly the same way as we saw in the germinating teleuto spores of the cedar rust, all the protoplasm of the basidium passing into the growing spores (Fig.
Section of gill showing _tr_==trama; _sh_==sub-hymenium; _b_==basidium, the basidia make up the hymenium; _st_==sterigma; _g_==spore.
From each one of these cells of the basidium a long, slender process (sterigma) grows out to the surface of the plant and bears the spore.
Among these basidia and sterile cells will frequently be seen an overgrown bladder-like sterile basidium which projects beyond the rest of the hymenium, and whose use is not as yet fully known.