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Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia

  1. n. The sporocarp of discomycetous fungi and truffles.

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  1. n. An ascocarp.

GNU Webster's 1913

  1. n. an ascocarp having the spore-bearing layer of cells (the hymenium) on a broad disklike receptacle.

WordNet 3.0

  1. n. an ascocarp having the spore-bearing layer of cells (the hymenium) on a broad disklike receptacle

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  • “In truffles, these asci are contained in ascoma, the little bumps that give truffles their characteristic warty appearance.”

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  1. ascobolus

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