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CONIDIUM (conidia)
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Irregular inflected form: conidia
Dictionary entry overview: What does conidium mean?
• CONIDIUM (noun)
The noun CONIDIUM has 1 sense:
1. an asexually produced fungal spore formed on a conidiophore
Familiarity information: CONIDIUM used as a noun is very rare.
Dictionary entry details
Sense 1
Meaning:
An asexually produced fungal spore formed on a conidiophore
Classified under:
Nouns denoting plants
Synonyms:
conidiospore; conidium
Hypernyms ("conidium" is a kind of...):
spore (a small usually single-celled asexual reproductive body produced by many nonflowering plants and fungi and some bacteria and protozoans and that are capable of developing into a new individual without sexual fusion)
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