Usually means: Spore-bearing structures on fungi.
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  1. sterigmata: Merriam-Webster
  2. sterigmata: Oxford Learner's Dictionaries
  3. sterigmata: Wiktionary
  4. sterigmata: Dictionary.com
  5. Sterigmata: Wikipedia, the Free Encyclopedia
  6. sterigmata: TheFreeDictionary.com

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  1. sterigmata: Encyclopedia

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  1. sterigmata: Merriam-Webster Medical Dictionary

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(Note: See sterigma as well.)

Definitions from Wiktionary (sterigma)

noun:  (mycology) A slim projecting part of the basidium of some species of fungi that carries the basidiospore.
noun:  (botany) A woody projection from the tip of the leaf base in certain conifers (Picea and Tsuga).
noun:  (entomology) Part of the genitalia of moths.
▸ Also see sterigma


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