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AEcidium


Æ-cid′i-um

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Noun.
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pl.
Æcidia
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[NL., dim. of Gr. [GREEK] injury.]
(Bot.)
A form of fruit in the cycle of development of the Rusts or Brands, an order of fungi, formerly considered independent plants.

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Aecidium

Aecidium

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Wikispecies

Proper noun

Aecidium n

  1. (mycology) A taxonomic genus within the order Pucciniales – a form-genus name applied to a stage of development of a fungus whose aecia have developed but whose species has not been identified.

Related terms

aecidium

aecidium

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English

Alternative forms

  • æcidium

Noun

aecidium (plural aecidia or aecidiums)

  1. The cupulate fruiting body borne upon the mycelium of certain fungi commonly parasitic upon specimens of the Compositae, Lamiaceae, Leguminosae, and Ranunculaceae families
  2. (mycology) A member of the form genus Aecidium.

Related terms

  • aecidial
  • aecidiospore

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References

  1. æcidium” listed in the Oxford English Dictionary, second edition, 1989