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American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Edition

  1. n. An ascus-bearing structure found in ascomycetous fungi.

Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia

  1. n. The developed fructification in Ascomycetes, consisting of asci and ascophores.

Wiktionary

  1. n. The sporocarp of an ascomycete, typically bowl-shaped.

GNU Webster's 1913

  1. n. (Bot.) In ascomycetous fungi, the spherical, discoid, or cup-shaped body within which the asci are collected, and which constitutes the mature fructification. The different forms are known in mycology under distinct names. Called also spore fruit.

WordNet 3.0

  1. n. mature fruiting body of an ascomycetous fungus

Etymologies

  1. asco- + -carp (Wiktionary)

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