Basidium

[bә'sidiәm]

Definition

(noun.) a small club-shaped structure typically bearing four basidiospores at the ends of minute projections; unique to basidiomycetes.

Typist: Randall--From WordNet

Definition

(n.) A special oblong or pyriform cell, with slender branches, which bears the spores in that division of fungi called Basidiomycetes, of which the common mushroom is an example.

Typed by Edwina