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ASCOCARP

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 I. (noun) 

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Meaning:

Mature fruiting body of an ascomycetous fungus

Classified under:

Nouns denoting plants

Hypernyms ("ascocarp" is a kind of...):

fruiting body (an organ specialized for producing spores)

Hyponyms (each of the following is a kind of "ascocarp"):

ascoma (an ascocarp having the spore-bearing layer of cells (the hymenium) on a broad disklike receptacle)

apothecium (a cuplike ascocarp in many lichens and ascomycetous fungi)

cleistocarp; cleistothecium (closed spore-bearing structure of some fungi (especially Aspergillaceae and Erysiphaceae) from which spores are released only by decay or disintegration)

perithecium (flask-shaped ascocarp)

Holonyms ("ascocarp" is a part of...):

ascomycete; ascomycetous fungus (any fungus of the class Ascomycetes (or subdivision Ascomycota) in which the spores are formed inside an ascus)

Derivation:

ascocarpous (of or relating to ascocarps)

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