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Webster 1913 Edition
AEcidium
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Æ-cid′i-um
,Noun.
pl.
Æcidia
. [NL., dim. of Gr. [GREEK] injury.]
(Bot.)
A form of fruit in the cycle of development of the Rusts or Brands, an order of fungi, formerly considered independent plants.
Definition 2024
Aecidium
Aecidium
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Translingual
Proper noun
Aecidium n
- (mycology) A taxonomic genus within the order Pucciniales – a form-genus name applied to a stage of development of a fungus whose aecia have developed but whose species has not been identified.
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English
Alternative forms
- æcidium
Noun
aecidium (plural aecidia or aecidiums)
- The cupulate fruiting body borne upon the mycelium of certain fungi commonly parasitic upon specimens of the Compositae, Lamiaceae, Leguminosae, and Ranunculaceae families
- (mycology) A member of the form genus Aecidium.
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Translations
the cupulate fruiting body borne upon the mycelium of certain fungi
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