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AECIUM
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Irregular inflected form: aecia
I. (noun)
Sense 1
Meaning:
Fruiting body of some rust fungi bearing chains of aeciospores
Classified under:
Hypernyms ("aecium" is a kind of...):
fruiting body (an organ specialized for producing spores)
Holonyms ("aecium" is a part of...):
rust; rust fungus (any of various fungi causing rust disease in plants)
Derivation:
aecial (of or belonging to an aecium)
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