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from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.
- noun A fruiting body of some lichens in which the spores lie freely in a powdery mass that is enclosed in a peridium.
Etymologies
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 4th Edition
[New Latin : Greek maza, lump; see mag- in Indo-European roots + Latin aedēs, house.]
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