sporidium

English

Etymology

From New Latin sporidium, from Latin spora. See spore.

Noun

sporidium (plural sporidia)

1. (botany) A secondary spore borne on a promycelium, or a filament produced from a spore, in certain kinds of minute fungi.
2. An ascospore.
3. Any spore.

Part or all of this entry has been imported from the 1913 edition of Webster’s Dictionary, which is now free of copyright and hence in the public domain. The imported definitions may be significantly out of date, and any more recent senses may be completely missing.
(See the entry for “sporidium”, in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: G. & C. Merriam, 1913, →OCLC.)