Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun In botany, a small point formed by the projection of the midrib beyond its leaf.
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- noun mycology The part of a spore which attaches to the
sterigmata at the end of abasidium .
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= Cystidia = abruptly club-shaped, with a broad apiculus.
Studies of American Fungi. Mushrooms, Edible, Poisonous, etc. George Francis Atkinson 1886
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