Word Meanings - ASCOSPORE - Book Publishers vocabulary database

One of the spores contained in the asci of lichens and fungi.

Related words: (words related to ASCOSPORE)

• CONTAINMENT
  That which is contained; the extent; the substance. The containment of a rich man's estate. Fuller.
• FUNGIVOROUS
  Eating fungi; -- said of certain insects and snails.
• FUNGIN
  A name formerly given to cellulose found in certain fungi and mushrooms.
• FUNGIBLES
  Things which may be furnished or restored in kind, as distinguished from specific things; -- called also fungible things. Burrill. (more info) fungi to discharge. "A barbarous term, supposed to have originated in the use of the words functionem
• CONTAINANT
  A container.
• FUNGITE
  A fossil coral resembling Fungia.
• FUNGIFORM
  Shaped like a fungus or mushroom. Fungiform papillæ , numerous small, rounded eminences on the upper surface of the tongue.
• FUNGIAN
  Of or pertaining to the Fungidæ, a family of stony corals. -- n.
• FUNGILLIFORM
  Shaped like a small fungus.
• CONTAINABLE
  Capable of being contained or comprised. Boyle.
• FUNGIA
  A genus of simple, stony corals; -- so called because they are usually flat and circular, with radiating plates, like the gills of a mushroom. Some of them are eighteen inches in diameter.
• CONTAINER
  One who, or that which, contains.
• FUNGI IMPERFECTI
  A heterogenous group of fungi of which the complete life history is not known. Some undoubtedly represent the conidium stages of various Ascomycetes. The group is divided into the orders Sphæropsidales, Melanconiales, and Moniliales.
• FUNGIC
  Pertaining to, or obtained from, mushrooms; as, fungic acid.
• CONTAIN
  1. To hold within fixed limits; to comprise; to include; to inclose; to hold. Behold, heaven and the heaven of heavens can not contain thee; how much less this house! 2 Chron. vi. 18. When that this body did contain a spirit. Shak. What thy stores
• FUNGICIDE
  Anything that kills fungi. -- Fun`gi*ci"dal, n.
• FUNGI
  See FUNGUS
• SELF-CONTAINED
  Having all the essential working parts connected by a bedplate or framework, or contained in a case, etc., so that mutual relations of the parts do not depend upon fastening outside of the machine itself. Self-contained steam engine.