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Definition of Basidiospores
1. basidiospore [n] - See also: basidiospore
Lexicographical Neighbors of Basidiospores
Literary usage of Basidiospores
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Botany, with Agricultural Applications by John Nathan Martin (1920)
"The following spring the chlamydospores germinate, each producing a small hypha
called a pro- mycelium, on which the basidiospores are produced. ..."
2. A Textbook of Botany for Colleges and Universities by John Merle Coulter, Charles Reid Barnes, Henry Chandler Cowles (1911)
"1127), germinate on the ground, and give rise to a mycelium, which produces
basidiospores (fig. 194). If any basidiospores, scattered by the wind, ..."
3. Manual of Tree Diseases by William Howard Rankin (1918)
"These spores germinate the following spring and produce basidiospores. ...
Recently also it has been demonstrated that the basidiospores of the second ..."
4. A Text-book of Mycology and Plant Pathology by John William Harshberger (1917)
"... which usually gives rise to a terminal cluster of elongated basidiospores,
... which sometimes bear whorls of secondary basidiospores. ..."
5. Botany by Wilfred William Robbins, John Nathan Martin (1919)
"study of the formation of these spores shows that they are not basidiospores,
for they are not formed on basidia. The hyphae in the smut ball simply divide ..."
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