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from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.

  • noun A blackish pustulelike structure that is formed in the tissue of a plant infected by a rust fungus and produces teliospores.

from The Century Dictionary.

  • noun The name given by Arthur to the teleutosorus of uredineal fungi.

from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.

  • noun A sorus, in the form of a pustule, in the tissue of plants infected with the fungus rust

Etymologies

from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 4th Edition

[New Latin, from Greek teleios, complete; see teleology.]

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