(definition) by Webster 1913 Tue Dec 21 1999 at 22:03:37

Ba*sid"i*um (?), n. [NL., dim. of Gr. base.] Bot.

A special oblong or pyriform cell, with slender branches, which bears the spores in that division of fungi called Basidiomycetes, of which the common mushroom is an example.

 

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