nidulariaceous

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adjective

Of, pertaining to, or resembling fungi of the family Nidulariaceae (the bird's nest fungi).

Scrabble 17

Meanings

adjectivenidulariaceous (comparative more nidulariaceous, superlative most nidulariaceous)

comparative more nidulariaceous · superlative most nidulariaceous

  1. Of, pertaining to, or resembling fungi of the family Nidulariaceae (the bird's nest fungi).

    1976, Microbiology Abstracts: Algology, mycology & protozoology, Volume 5, Issues 1-4, page 9, A species with nidulariaceous fructifications, but belonging to the Deuteromycotina, […] .

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    […]in the last years of the 17th century Piukenet listed a nidulariaceous species from the West Indies[…].

    1977, Donald Philip Rogers, A Brief History of Mycology in North America, page 5

    The nidulariaceous fungi included five genera, from which only Cyathus is currently known from Cameroon.

    2007, Clovis Douanla-Meli, Fungi of Cameroon: Ecological Diversity with Emphasis on the Taxonomy of Non-gilled Hymenomycetes from the Mbalmayo Forest Reserve, page 67

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