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    ASCOCARP

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     I. (noun) 

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    Meaning:

    Mature fruiting body of an ascomycetous fungusplay

    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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