hymeniumn.
/hʌɪˈmiːnɪəm/, U.S. /haɪˈminiəm/ Botany.
The spore-bearing surface in fungi. In the common mushroom the hymenium covers the gills.
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capsule1693
perithecium1800
aecidium1821
hymenium1830
pseudoperidium1832
pseudoperithecium1832
disc1842
trichidium1842
spicule1843
sporophore1849
stylospore1851
pycnide1856
cyst1857
pycnidium1857
basidium1858
cystidium1858
basidiospore1859
conidium1861
pollinarium1861
gonosphere1865
hymenophorum1866
spicula1866
teleutospore1866
promycelium1867
gonosphaerium1873
hymenophore1874
paracyst1874
sterigma1874
pollinodium1875
scolecite1875
uredospore1875
metuloid1879
operculum1879
uredo1879
aecidiospore1880
pycnidiospore1880
uredo-fruit1882
chlamydospore1884
teleutosorus1884
fruitcake1885
ascocarp1887
periplasm1887
pycnospore1887
pyrenocarp1887
macrostylospore1894
autobasidium1895
oidium1895
zygophore1904
aeciospore1905
aecium1905
pycniospore1905
teliospore1905
telium1905
uredinium1905
uredosorus1905
fruit-body1912
sporodochium1913
probasidium1916
fruiting body1918
pycnium1926
holobasidium1928
protoperithecium1937
uredium1937
1830 J. Lindley Introd. Nat. Syst. Bot. 334 The hymenium, in which the sporules are deposited.
1858 E. Lankester & W. B. Carpenter Veg. Physiol. (new ed.) §778 This..pileus, or cap, is composed of two membranes, of which the upper and outer is simple and imperforate, like the cortical layer of lichens; whilst the inner bears the fructification, and is termed the hymenium.
1882 S. H. Vines tr. J. von Sachs Text-bk. Bot. (ed. 2) 311 Small stalked cups, the flattened cavity of which bears a hymenium in which ascospores are formed.
Compounds
attributive and in other combinations.
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1875 A. W. Bennett & W. T. T. Dyer tr. J. von Sachs Text-bk. Bot. 240 The hymenium-bearing body itself may be the product of a sexual process.
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