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Definition of Ascomycetous fungus

1. Noun. Any fungus of the class Ascomycetes (or subdivision Ascomycota) in which the spores are formed inside an ascus.

Lexicographical Neighbors of Ascomycetous Fungus

Literary usage of Ascomycetous fungus

Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:

1. Nature by Nature Publishing Group, Norman Lockyer (1883)
"... view that a lichen is a compound organism composed of an alga on which an ascomycetous fungus has become more or less intimately affixed and dependent. ..."

2. A Text-book of Mycology and Plant Pathology by John William Harshberger (1917)
"The black knot of the plum is a tumor-like swelling of the branches of plum trees due to the attack of an ascomycetous fungus, ..."

3. Fungous Diseases of Plants, with Chapters on Physiology, Culture Methods and by Benjamin Minge Duggar (1909)
"In asparagus growing the losses are also occasionally severe. An ascomycetous fungus occurring upon the stubble of alfalfa, described as ..."

4. Diseases of Cultivated Plants and Trees by George Massee (1915)
"... but from a pseudoparenchymatous mass of tissue occupying the air cavity below a stoma, which may represent the primordium of some ascomycetous fungus, ..."

5. Diseases of Cultivated Plants and Trees by George Massee (1913)
"... but from a pseudoparenchymatous mass of tissue occupying the air cavity below a stoma, which may represent the primordium of some ascomycetous fungus, ..."

6. Manual of Tree Diseases by William Howard Rankin (1918)
"So far, this ascomycetous fungus has not been associated with the poplar canker in this country, although it is supposed to have been present here as a ..."

7. Synopsis of the British Basidiomycetes: A Descriptive Catalogue of the by Worthington George Smith (1908)
"... an ascomycetous fungus, sometimes grows in company with Exobasidium. Species 1899, 1900 1899. ..."

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