ascusn.
/ˈaskəs/ Botany.
A membranous tubular cell, esp. the swollen sac-like cell at the end of the branches of the hyphæ in certain fungi and lichens, in which the reproductive sporules or sporidia develop.
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1830 J. Lindley Introd. Nat. Syst. Bot. 332 These cases (thecæ) are..contained in other membranous cases (asci).
1875 A. W. Bennett & W. T. T. Dyer tr. J. von Sachs Text-bk. Bot. 240 With the development and escape of the spores the ascus disappears.
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