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Definition of Basidiospore
1. Noun. A sexually produced fungal spore borne on a basidium.
Definition of Basidiospore
1. n. A spore borne by a basidium.
Definition of Basidiospore
1. Noun. (biology) A sexually reproductive spore produced by fungi of the phylum ''Basidiomycota'' ¹
¹ Source: wiktionary.com
Definition of Basidiospore
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Medical Definition of Basidiospore
1. Spores of Basidiomycete fungi. These spores are usually uninucleate and haploid. This entry appears with permission from the Dictionary of Cell and Molecular Biology (11 Mar 2008)
Lexicographical Neighbors of Basidiospore
Literary usage of Basidiospore
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. A Textbook of Botany for Colleges and Universities by John Merle Coulter, Charles Reid Barnes, Henry Chandler Cowles (1910)
"With a uninucleate basidiospore and a binucleate mycelium, it is a matter of
interest to determine where the binucleate condition originates. ..."
2. A University Text-book of Botany by Douglas Houghton. Campbell (1907)
"The spore usually develops a thickened wall, but in the lower forms like the
Rusts and Smuts the wall of the basidiospore remains very delicate, ..."
3. A Text-book of Mycology and Plant Pathology by John William Harshberger (1917)
"upright and divided transversely into four cells, each of which cuts off a
basidiospore. These basidiospores are blown to the leaves, twigs, ..."
4. The Forester: A Practical Treatise on British Forestry and Arboriculture for by John Nisbet (1905)
"... itself becomes septated into four cells, and develops like the basidiospore.
The basidiospores germinate in water, and their spore-tubes always obtain ..."
5. Science by American Association for the Advancement of Science (1910)
"... the volume of a basidiospore, is too heavy for wind dispersal. It falls on
the surrounding herbage where the spores may be devoured by herbivorous ..."
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