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AECIUM (aecia)

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does aecium mean? 

AECIUM (noun)
  The noun AECIUM has 1 sense:

1. fruiting body of some rust fungi bearing chains of aeciosporesplay

  Familiarity information: AECIUM used as a noun is very rare.


 Dictionary entry details 


AECIUM (noun)


Sense 1

Meaning:

Fruiting body of some rust fungi bearing chains of aeciospores

Classified under:

Nouns denoting plants

Hypernyms ("aecium" is a kind of...):

fruiting body (an organ specialized for producing spores)

Holonyms ("aecium" is a part of...):

rust; rust fungus (any of various fungi causing rust disease in plants)

Derivation:

aecial (of or belonging to an aecium)


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