Look up: hymenium

1. hymenium
   A palisade-like layer of asci or basidia, including any sterile cells, such as basidioles, paraphyses, or cystidia. (Pl. hymenia.)
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2. Hymenium
   A fertile layer of regularly arranged asci or basidia in fungal fruiting bodies.
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3. hymenium
   [n] - spore-bearing layer of cells in certain fungi containing asci or basidia
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4. Hymenium
   Hy·me'ni·um noun ; plural Latin Hymenia , English Hymeniums . [ New Latin , from Greek ... a membrane.] (Botany) The spore-bearing surface of certain fungi, as that on the gills of a mushroom.
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5. hymenium
   Origin: NL, fr. Gr. A membrane. ... <botany> The spore-bearing surface of certain fungi, as that on the gills of a mushroom. ... Source: Websters Dictionary ... (01 Mar 1998) ...
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6. Hymenium
   • (n.) The spore-bearing surface of certain fungi, as that on the gills of a mushroom.
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7. hymenium
   a spore-bearing layer of tissue in fungi (kingdom Fungi) found in the phyla Ascomycota and Basidiomycota. It is formed by end cells of hyphae—the ...
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8. hymenium
   the spore-bearing layer of a fruiting body, containing asci, spores and paraphyses.
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9. Hymenium
   The `hymenium` is the tissue layer on the hymenophore of a fungal fruiting body where the cells develop into basidia or asci, which produce spores. In some species all of the cells of the hymenium develop into basidia or asci, while in others some cells develop into sterile cells called `cystidia` (...
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