basidium

English Thesaurus

1. a small club-shaped structure typically bearing four basidiospores at the ends of minute projections; unique to basidiomycetes (noun.plant)

hypernym	:	reproductive structure,
definition	:	the parts of a plant involved in its reproduction (noun.plant)

hyponym	:	promycelium,
definition	:	the basidium of various fungi (noun.plant)

part holonym	:	hypobasidium,
definition	:	special cell constituting the base of the basidium in various fungi especially of the order Tremellales (noun.plant)

derivation	:	basidial,
definition	:	relating to or characterized by basidia (adj.pert)

derivation	:	basidial,
definition	:	relating to or characterized by basidia (adj.pert)