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basidia

n. (plural of basidium English)

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basidium
  1. n. a small club-shaped structure typically bearing four basidiospores at the ends of minute projections; unique to basidiomycetes

  2. [also: basidia (pl)]

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This hymenium is composed of a number of swollen, club-shaped cells, called basidia, and close to them, side by side, are sterile, elongated cells, named paraphyses.