BASIDIUM

Pronunciation (US): (GB):

Irregular inflected form: basidia

Meaning:

A small club-shaped structure typically bearing four basidiospores at the ends of minute projections; unique to basidiomycetes

Classified under:

Nouns denoting plants

Hypernyms ("basidium" is a kind of...):

reproductive structure (the parts of a plant involved in its reproduction)

Meronyms (parts of "basidium"):

hypobasidium (special cell constituting the base of the basidium in various fungi especially of the order Tremellales)

Hyponyms (each of the following is a kind of "basidium"):

promycelium (the basidium of various fungi)

Derivation:

basidial (relating to or characterized by basidia)