Definition of Basidial

1. Adjective. Relating to or characterized by basidia.

Partainyms: Basidium
Derivative terms: Basidium

Definition of Basidial

1. basidium [adj] - See also: basidium

Lexicographical Neighbors of Basidial

basic training
basically
basicerite
basicerites
basicities
basicity
basicly
basiconic
basicrania
basicranial
basicranial axis
basicranial flexure
basicranium
basics
basidia
basidial (current term)
basidiocarp
basidiocarps
basidiole
basidioles
basidiolichen
basidioma
basidiomata
basidiome
basidiomes
basidiomycetes
basidiomycetous
basidiomycetous fungi

Literary usage of Basidial

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

1. The Natural History of Plants: Their Forms, Growth, Reproduction, and by Anton Kerner Von Marilaun (1902)
"3S9. i Portion of a lamella of an Agaricus with a basidial layer (from which ... Shows three basidia, more highly magnified, from the basidial layer of the ..."

2. Nature and Development of Plants by Carlton Clarence Curtis (1918)
"This basidial stage completes the life history of the fungus for the basidiospores are carried to the leaves of the barberry and begin again the life cycle ..."

3. A Preliminary Report on the Hymeniales of Connecticut by Edward Albert White (1905)
"Because of these basidial cells these fungi are classed as BASIDIOMYCETES. ... Because of the varying methods of nuclear fusion in the basidial cells, ..."

4. Botanical Gazette by University of Chicago, JSTOR (Organization) (1916)
"... still more or less separated, showing distinct gill chambers, but the numerous cystidia already project above the level of the young basidial hymenium. ..."

5. Proceedings of the Annual Conference by Indiana Science Teachers' Association, American Society of University Composers (1899)
"... basidial layer, sterigmata, and basidiospores). Puff balls may be studied if there is time. Bryophyta LIVERWORTS (Hepaticae) Thalloid liverworts 58 ..."

6. Strasburger's Text-book of Botany by Eduard Strasburger, Hans Fitting (1921)
"... which contains the chambers and basidial hymenium. At maturity the stalk becomes enormously elongated, and pushing through the ruptured peridium raises ..."

7. Journal of the Royal Microscopical Society by Royal Microscopical Society, London (1882)
"... are districted from the terminal cell, which Woronin calls the basidial cell, and compares with the basidium of the ..."

8. Fungous Diseases of Plants, with Chapters on Physiology, Culture Methods and by Benjamin Minge Duggar (1909)
"... and are at maturity a chain of four basidial cells within a somewhat gelatinized common wall. They are sessile, 5 5-80 x 15-23/4, and the cell wall at ..."

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