Definition of Pycnidium

1. Noun. Flask-shaped asexual structure containing conidia.

Generic synonyms: Plant Part, Plant Structure

Definition of Pycnidium

1. n. In certain fungi, a flask-shaped cavity from the surface of the inner walls of which spores are produced.

Definition of Pycnidium

1. Noun. In certain fungi, a flask-shaped cavity from the surface of the inner walls of which spores are produced. ¹

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Definition of Pycnidium

1. a spore-bearing organ of certain fungi [n -DIA]

Lexicographical Neighbors of Pycnidium

pwnt
pwr.
py
pya
pyaemia
pyaemias
pyaemic
pyas
pyaster
pyat
pyats
pycnaspidean
pycnic
pycnidia
pycnidial
pycnidium (current term)
pycnite
pycnites
pycno-
pycnocline
pycnoclines
pycnodont
pycnodonts
pycnodysostosis
pycnogenol
pycnogenols
pycnogonid
pycnogonids
pycnometer
pycnometers

Literary usage of Pycnidium

Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:

1. Contributions from the New York Botanical Garden by New York Botanical Garden (1904)
"In microtome sections of the leaf with the fungus growing on it from a culture five weeks old, the cells near the pycnidium seem much ..."

2. Report of the Secretary of Agriculture by United States Dept. of Agriculture (1892)
"Mature pycnidium X 200. la, gelatinous mass of exuded spores ... Primary stage in development of pycnidium x 550, 10. Early stage in development of ..."

3. The Proceedings of the Linnean Society of New South Wales by Linnean Society of New South Wales (1896)
"Cerato-pycnidium conical and bullet-shaped ( x 540). fig. 35.—Elongated jointed filament« composing wall of cerato-pycnidium, sometimes long and slender, ..."

4. A Text-book of Mycology and Plant Pathology by John William Harshberger (1917)
"A section across each blister reveals a somewhat globose pycnidium surrounded by a scanty loose mass of whitish, or yellowish hyphae, which merge with the ..."

5. Manual of Fruit Diseases by Lexemuel Ray Hesler, Herbert Hice Whetzel (1917)
"Sclerotial body resembling a pycnidium which may become a perithecium. ... An asexual spore — a conidium — borne in a pycnidium. Rhizomorph. ..."

6. Manual of Fruit Diseases by Lexemuel Ray Hesler, Herbert Hice Whetzel (1917)
"Sclerotial body resembling a pycnidium which may become a perithecium. ... An asexual spore — a conidium — borne in a pycnidium. Rhizomorph. ..."

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