Apothecium is a 10 letter English word. It's valid Words with friends word worth 22 points.
You can make 706 anagrams from letters in apothecium (acehimoptu).
1820-30; New Latin Greek apo- apo- + thēkíon, equivalent to thḗk(ē) case (see theca) + -ion diminutive suffix
The cup, or shield-shaped spot, or knob, which bears the fructification is named the apothecium.
Cyclocarpineae, apothecium usually circular, no capillitium.
Nylander called the apothecium pale within, but forms with red-brown hypothecia are admitted by later writers.
In the Helvellaceae there is no apothecium but a large irregular fruit body which at maturity bears the asci on its surface.
Piece of thallus of Parmelia conspersa, with section through an apothecium.
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