FRUITING BODY

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does fruiting body mean? 

• FRUITING BODY (noun)
  The noun FRUITING BODY has 1 sense:

1. an organ specialized for producing spores

  Familiarity information: FRUITING BODY used as a noun is very rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• FRUITING BODY (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

An organ specialized for producing spores

Classified under:

Nouns denoting plants

Hypernyms ("fruiting body" is a kind of...):

plant organ (a functional and structural unit of a plant or fungus)

Hyponyms (each of the following is a kind of "fruiting body"):

ascocarp (mature fruiting body of an ascomycetous fungus)

acervulus (small asexual fruiting body resembling a cushion or blister consisting of a mat of hyphae that is produced on a host by some fungi)

basidiocarp (the fruiting body of a basidiomycete which bears its spores on special cells)

aecium (fruiting body of some rust fungi bearing chains of aeciospores)