HYPOBASIDIUM

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Meaning:

Special cell constituting the base of the basidium in various fungi especially of the order Tremellales

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Nouns denoting plants

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

plant organ (a functional and structural unit of a plant or fungus)

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

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

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