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American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Edition

  1. n. A flask-shaped asexual structure containing conidia, found in certain fungi.

Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia

  1. n. In botany, a receptacle in ascomycetous fungi, resembling a perithecium, in which stylospores or pycnospores are produced: same as clinosporangium. See stylospore. Also pycnid, pycnide.
  2. n. [capitalized] [NL.] In entomology, a genus of coleopterous insects of the family Tenebrionidæ. Also called Oochrotus.

Wiktionary

  1. n. In certain fungi, a flask-shaped cavity from the surface of the inner walls of which spores are produced.

GNU Webster's 1913

  1. n. (Bot.) In certain fungi, a flask-shaped cavity from the surface of the inner walls of which spores are produced.

WordNet 3.0

  1. n. flask-shaped asexual structure containing conidia

Etymologies

  1. New Latin, from Ancient Greek. (Wiktionary)
  2. New Latin : Greek puknos, thick + Latin -idium, diminutive suff. (from Greek -idion). (American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Edition)

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  1. plant part
  1. plant structure

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  1. picnid
  2. pycnid
  1. pycnidia
  2. clinosporangium
  1. receptacle
  2. spermatogonium
  1. stylospore
  2. pycnidial
  1. ceratopycnidium
  2. moniliales
  1. order moniliales
  2. melanconiales

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