Associations to the word «Basidium»

Wiktionary

BASIDIUM, noun. (mycology) A small structure, shaped like a club, found in the Basidiomycota division of fungi, that bears four spores at the tips of small projections.

Dictionary definition

BASIDIUM, noun. A small club-shaped structure typically bearing four basidiospores at the ends of minute projections; unique to basidiomycetes.

Wise words

Words are always getting conventionalized to some secondary meaning. It is one of the works of poetry to take the truants in custody and bring them back to their right senses.
William Butler Yeats