Definitions for basidium

basidium ba·sid·i·um

Spelling: [buh-sid-ee-uh m]
IPA: /bəˈsɪd i əm/

Basidium is a 8 letter English word. It's valid Scrabble word worth 13 points. It's valid Words with friends word worth 16 points.

You can make 221 anagrams from letters in basidium (abdiimsu).

Definitions for basidium

noun

  1. a special form of sporophore, characteristic of basidiomycetous fungi, on which the sexual spores are borne, usually at the tips of slender projections.

Origin of basidium

First recorded in 1855-60; bas(is) + -idium

Examples for basidium

C, A basidium before the four nuclei derived from the secondary nucleus of the basidium have passed into the four basidiospores.

The sporophyte may be considered to begin at the stage of nuclear association and end with the nuclear reduction in the basidium.

Life-history always very simple, no well-marked alternation of generations; basidium borne directly on the mycelium.

During the tetrad division in the basidium nuclear reduction occurs.

Conidia (basidiospores) borne in fours on a special conidiophore, the basidium.

basidium, the characteristic spore-producing organ of the Basidiomycetes.

There is also a further reduction in that the basidium is not derived from a teleutospore but is borne directly on the mycelium.

They are characterized by their principal spores being produced externally, usually in fours, upon an organ called a basidium.

Between the nuclear association and the nuclear fusion in the basidium many thousands of cell generations may be intercalated.

This conjugate condition is finally brought to a close by the nuclear fusion in the basidium.

Word Value for basidium
Scrable

13

Words with friends

16

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