Meanings
adjectivesporangiumlike (comparative more sporangiumlike, superlative most sporangiumlike)
comparative more sporangiumlike · superlative most sporangiumlike · alternative sporangium-like
- biologyResembling a sporangium.
Thus plasmodiocarps may have a variety of shapes even in the same fruiting, varying from sporangiumlike spheres to a network of tubes.
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 43
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