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- noun Plural form of
basidiospore .
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Examples
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The opened mushroom has a stronger odour and taste attributable to the mature basidiospores.
Chapter 16 1979
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Initially, the gills are white, but they turn brown once mature basidiospores are produced in the gills.
Chapter 16 1979
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Fruiting surface, or hymenium, formed of numerous crowded perpendicular basidia, the apex of the latter bearing two to six (usually four) basidiospores, or the basidiospores borne laterally; in many cases cystidia intermingled with the basidia.
Studies of American Fungi. Mushrooms, Edible, Poisonous, etc. George Francis Atkinson 1886
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Ingold CT (2001) Range in size and form of basidiospores and ascospores.
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