n. In botany:n. A pluricellular tuber-like reservoir of reserve material forming on a primary filamentous mycelium, from which it becomes detached when its development is complete.n. [capitalized] An old genus of fungi, comprising hard, black, compact bodies which are now known to be a resting-stage of the mycelium of certain other fungi, such as Peziza tuberosa. See ergot, 2.n. In zoology, one of the peculiar quiescent cysts or hypnocysts of Mycetozoa, not giving rise to spores.