secotioid

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adjective

Relating to fungi of the genus Secotium

OriginAncient Greek σηκός →
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Meanings

adjectivesecotioid (not comparable)
  1. not comparableRelating to fungi of the genus Secotium

    For agariclike basidiocarps not discharging spores from the sterigmata, see the secotioid Gasteromycetes.

    1965, C. G. Ainsworth, Frederick K[roeber] Sparrow, Alfred S. Sussman, editors, The Fungi: An Advanced Treatise, volume IVB (A Taxonomic Review with Keys: Basidomycetes and Lower Fungi), New York, N.Y.; London: Academic Press, →ISBN, page 422

Origin

  1. Ancient Greekσηκός“enclosure”
  2. Englishsecotioid

From translingual Secotium (“enclosed fruiting body”) + -oid, from 1840 by German zoologyist, entomologist, and botanist Gustav Kunze from Ancient Greek σηκός (sēkós, “enclosure”).

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Chicago

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