Concept cluster: Health > Fungi morphology and lifecycle
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(biology, mycology) A method of spore formation in fungi in which successive portions of the sporophore are cut off through the growth of septa; abjunction.
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(biology, mycology) Describes tissue that consists of connective hyphae and abundant, large, terminal, inflated cells.
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(mycology) Of, pertaining to, or resembling an aecium.
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(mycology) Having basidia maturing all over the surface of each lamella at once, not leaving patches of less matured spores.
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Relating to lichen of the genus Alectoria
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(biology) The asexual reproductive form in the life cycle of any fungus of the phyla Ascomycota and Basidiomycota.
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(lichenology) Relating to the apothecium.
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(mycology) Of or pertaining to appressoria
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Synonym of basidiocarp
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Alternative form of basidiomycetous [Relating to the basidiomycetes.]
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(mycology, obsolete) A yeast fungus.
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Composed of, or resembling, chitin
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(botany) Relating to, or composed of chlorenchyma
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(biology) The evolution of fungi to form fruiting bodies (mushrooms)
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Related to, or characteristic of the danionins
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The formation of mycorrhizas with another species
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The needle-shaped form of the spore of the malarial parasite transmitted by mosquitos.
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(pathology) Spongy, abnormal growth, as granulation tissue formed in a wound.
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(mycology) growing on other fungi
n
One whose diet consists mainly of fungi.
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Relating to fungi of the genus Funneliformis
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The rudimentary xylem in a cryptogam.
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(biology) All forms in the life cycle of any fungus of the phyla Ascomycota and Basidiomycota treated as a whole
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(mycology) Synonym of holobasidium
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(mycology, obsolete) Of or relating to the Hymenomycetes, a former class of fungi within the division Basidiomycota.
n
(biology) A large, multimeric pseudopilus
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(mycology) Any of the long, threadlike filaments that form the mycelium of a fungus.
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(mycology) Having a uterine shape
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Synonym of fungi imperfecti
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Relating to, or characteristic of fungi of the genus Lentinus
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Relating to, or obtained from lichens
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(mycology) Having a life cycle in which only teliospores and basidiospores are produced
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Synonym of microsporidian
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Relating to fungi of the family Microthyriaceae
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That forms mycelia
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A textile fashioned from threads of a fungus
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That forms mucos or mucilage (typically, on contact with water)
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Relating to the Nemaliophycidae class of red algae
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Relating to lichenized fungi of the genus Pannaria
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(lichenology) A structure in lichens that appears as a tiny pore on the outer surface, caused when there is a break in the cortex of the lichen and the medullary hyphae extend to the surface.
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(biology, of a fungus) heterothallic but producing self-fertile mycelium
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A rootlike structure, consisting of a dense mass of hyphae, in many fungi
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(biology) The formation of shmoos in yeast
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(botany) Alternative form of spermatophyte [(botany) Any plant that bears seeds rather than spores]
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(botany) Relating to spores and pollen grains
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A large, erect reproductive structure in some fungi, bearing compact conidiophores that fuse together to form a strand with conidia at the end or on the edges.
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Misconstruction of teleomorph [(biology) The final, sexually reproductive form in the life cycle of any fungus of the phyla Ascomycota and Basidiomycota.]
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(biology) The final, sexually reproductive form in the life cycle of any fungus of the phyla Ascomycota and Basidiomycota.
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(mycology) Any organism of the fungus genus Trichophyton.

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