Basidium Definition

bə-sĭdē-əm
basidia
noun
A small, specialized club-shaped structure typically bearing four basidiospores at the tips of minute projections. The basidium is unique to basidiomycetes and distinguishes them from other kinds of fungi.
American Heritage
Any of a number of oblong cells in basidiomycetous fungi, bearing a definite number of external spores (usually four) on short, slender stalks.
Webster's New World

(mycology) A small structure, shaped like a club, found in the Basidiomycota division of fungi, that bears four spores at the tips of small projections.

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Other Word Forms of Basidium

Noun

Singular:
basidium
Plural:
basidia

Origin of Basidium

  • bas(i)– Latin -idium diminutive suff. (from Greek -idion)

    From American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition

Basidium Sentence Examples

  • Conidia (basidiospores) borne in fours on a special conidiophore, the basidium.

  • Life-history in some cases very complex and with well-marked sexual process and alternation of generations, in others much reduced; basidium (promycelium) derived usually from a thick-walled spore (teleutospore).

  • Life-history always very simple, no wellmarked alternation of generations; basidium borne directly on the mycelium.

  • This conjugate condition is finally brought to a close by the nuclear fusion in the basidium.

  • The sporophyte may be considered to begin at the stage of nuclear association and end with the nuclear reduction in the basidium.

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