Pseudothecium Definition

noun

An ascocarp resembling a perithecium but whose asci are not regularly organised into a hymenium and are bitunicate, having a double wall which expands when it takes up water and shoots the enclosed spores out suddenly to disperse them.

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Noun

Singular:
pseudothecium
Plural:
pseudothecia

Origin of Pseudothecium

  • pseudo-

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