Etymology

pycnidium

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Today it means: In certain fungi, a flask-shaped cavity from the surface of the inner walls of which spores are produced. Full definition →

New Latin pycnidium
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  1. New Latin · borrowed frompycnidium
  2. English todaypycnidium

From New Latin pycnidium, from pycno- (“dense”) + -idium.

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