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/bəˈsidēəm/,
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basidia, plural;
  1. A microscopic, club-shaped spore-bearing structure produced by certain fungi

  1. a small club-shaped structure typically bearing four basidiospores at the ends of minute projections; unique to basidiomycetes
  2. (basidial) relating to or characterized by basidia
  3. A basidium (pl., basidia) is a microscopic, spore-producing structure found on the hymenophore of fruiting bodies of basidiomycete fungi. The presence of basidia is one of the main characteristic features of the Basidiomycota. ...
  4. a specialized sexual reproductive cell found in the fertile area of the hymenium of all Basidiomycetes, typically shaped like a baseball bat. A basidium possesses four slightly inwardly curved horns (sterigma) to which the basidiospores are attached.
  5. the meiosporangium of the subphylum Basidiomycotina; produces exogenous meiospores (usually 4, sometimes more, occasionally 2) on special projections called sterigmata.
  6. the cell or organ, diagnostic for the Basidiomycota, in which karyogamy and meiosis occurs, giving rise to basidiospores borne singly either on short extensions (sterigmata) or sessile on the basidial cell. pl. basidia. See also ustidium.
  7. A cell in which karyogamy and meiosis take place and which bears exogenous spores of sexual origin. (Pl. basidia.) (15)
  8. Enlarged terminal cell of a hypha, bearing basidiospores.
  9. a structure bearing on its surface a definite number of basidiospores (usually four) that are formed following karyogamy and meiosis.
  10. (pl. basidia, adj. basidial) - short, club-shaped fungus cell on which basidiospores are produced.
  11. Structure produced by basidiomycetes on which spore formation occurs.
  12. a special form of sporophore (spore-bearing hypha) on which the sexual spores are borne
  13. Produces sexual spores on the gills of mushrooms.
  14. The club-shaped cell where spores are produced by mushrooms of the subdivision Ascomycotina. Plural is Asci.