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Webster 1913 Edition

Basidium

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Ba-sid′i-um

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Noun.
[NL., dim. of Gr.
βάσισ
base.]
(Bot.)
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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