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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