sporidiumn.
/spɒˈrɪdɪəm/ Botany.
1. A case or cell containing sporules.
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perithecium1800
conceptacle1819
sporangium1821
sporidium1821
receptacle1824
sporangiolum1824
spore-case1836
perispore1851
polyspore1855
perisporangium1856
sporange1857
thalamium1861
sporidiole1863
theke1872
macrosporange1882
polysporangium1890
1821 W. J. Hooker Flora Scotica ii. 16 Its sporules are included in a sort of capsule..which he [sc. Ditmar] calls sporidium.
1830 J. Lindley Introd. Nat. Syst. Bot. 334 Sporules lying either loose among the tissue, or enclosed in membranous cases called sporidia.
2. A sporule.
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sporule1819
sporidiolum1832
spore1836
sporid1847
sporidium1867
1867 J. Hogg Microscope (ed. 6) ii. i. 272 A gelatinous or membranous pericarp or conceptacle, in which an indefinite number of sporidia are contained.
1887 W. Phillips Man. Brit. Discomycetes 444 A filiform sporidium removed from an ascus.
Compounds
sporidium-bearing adj.
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1875 M. C. Cooke Fungi 64 The second section is termed Sporidiifera, or sporidia-bearing.
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