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AECIUM

Pronunciation (US):

(GB):

Irregular inflected form: aecia   

 I. (noun) 

Sense 1

Meaning:

Fruiting body of some rust fungi bearing chains of aeciospores

Classified under:

Nouns denoting plants

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

fruiting body (an organ specialized for producing spores)

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

rust; rust fungus (any of various fungi causing rust disease in plants)

Derivation:

aecial (of or belonging to an aecium)

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