Apothecium

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The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 4th Edition
  • n. A disk-shaped or cup-shaped ascocarp of some lichens and the fungi Ascomycetes.
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  • n. The ascigerous fructification of lichens, forming masses of various shapes.
    • the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English
  • n. The ascigerous fructification of lichens, forming masses of various shapes.
    • The Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia
  • n. In botany, the fruit of lichens, usually an open, rounded, shield- or dish-shaped body attached to the surface, as in gymnocarpous lichens, or globular and immersed in the substance of the thallus, as in the angiocarpous series of genera.
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  • n. a cuplike ascocarp in many lichens and ascomycetous fungi
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