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conidium

/koh-nid-ee-uhm, kuh-/US // koʊˈnɪd i əm, kə- //UK // (kəʊˈnɪdɪəm) //

分生孢子,分生孢子叶,分生孢子器,分生孢子梗

Definitions

n.名词 noun
  1. 1

    plural co·nid·i·a [koh-nid-ee-uh, kuh-]. /koʊˈnɪd i ə, kə-/. Botany.

    • : an asexual spore formed by abstriction at the top of a hyphal branch.

Examples

  • When it has reached the front of the opening in the conidium, which is thus emptied, the mass remains immovable.

  • This secondary conidium can sometimes engender a third cellule by a similar process.

  • A short time after the appearance of the vacuoles the entire conidium extends itself so that the papilla disappears.

  • Then it isolates itself from the germ-tube by a septum, and takes all the essential characteristics of the parent conidium.