sporocarp

English

Etymology

From sporo- + -carp.

Noun

sporocarp (plural sporocarps)

1. (mycology) The structure on a fungus and some algae which houses the spore-producing organs.

Synonyms

• fruiting body

Hyponyms

• (fungus structure): basidiocarp, basidiome (in basidiomycetes); ascocarp (in ascomycetes)
  • mushroom (epigeous sporocarp); truffle; false truffle (hypogeous sporocarp)

Derived terms

• megasporocarp
• microsporocarp

Related terms

• sporogenesis
• sporophore

Translations

fungal structure

• Chinese:

  Mandarin: 孢子果 (zh) (bāozǐguǒ), 子實體 / 子实体 (zh) (zǐshítǐ)

• Czech: plodnice (cs), sporokarp
• Finnish: itiöemä (fi)
• Greek: καρπόσωμα n (karpósoma), καρποφόρο n (karpofóro), σποροκάρπιο n (sporokárpio)
• Hungarian: termőtest (hu)
• Polish: sporokarp m
• Romanian: sporocarp n
• Russian: спорока́рпий (ru) m (sporokárpij)

Romanian

Etymology

Borrowed from French sporocarpe.

Noun

sporocarp n (uncountable)

1. sporocarp

Declension

singular only	indefinite	definite
nominative-accusative	sporocarp	sporocarpul
genitive-dative	sporocarp	sporocarpului
vocative	sporocarpule

References

• sporocarp in Academia Română, Micul dicționar academic, ediția a II-a, Bucharest: Univers Enciclopedic, 2010. →ISBN