| NOUN | plant | fruiting body | an organ specialized for producing spores |
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| Meaning | An organ specialized for producing spores. | |
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| Narrower | acervulus | small asexual fruiting body resembling a cushion or blister consisting of a mat of hyphae that is produced on a host by some fungi |
| aecium | fruiting body of some rust fungi bearing chains of aeciospores | |
| ascocarp | mature fruiting body of an ascomycetous fungus | |
| basidiocarp | The fruiting body of a basidiomycete which bears its spores on special cells | |
| Broader | plant organ | A functional and structural unit of a plant or fungus |
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