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from The Century Dictionary.
- noun The typical genus of the family Chytridiaceæ.
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Bd is called a chytrid fungus from the Greek chytridium, meaning "little pot" because small blisters filled with sperm-like, flagellated zoospores form in the skin of infected frogs.
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