Definition of Basidiomycetous

1. Adjective. Pertaining to or characteristic of fungi of the class Basidiomycetes.

Category relationships: Botany, Phytology
Partainyms: Basidiomycete
Derivative terms: Basidiomycete

Definition of Basidiomycetous

1. [adj]

Lexicographical Neighbors of Basidiomycetous

basics
basidia
basidial
basidiocarp
basidiocarps
basidiole
basidioles
basidiolichen
basidioma
basidiomata
basidiome
basidiomes
basidiomycetes
basidiomycetous (current term)
basidiomycetous fungi
basidiospores
basidiosporous
basifacial
basifacial axis
basification
basifications
basified
basifier
basifiers
basifies
basifixed

Literary usage of Basidiomycetous

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

1. The American Naturalist by American Society of Naturalists, Essex Institute (1898)
"... is a basidiomycetous stage of the ascomycete already named. If it is such a stage, the fact will have great significance in determining the relationship ..."

2. Journal of Botany, British and Foreign (1905)
"... by Hope; 180 Ohio fungi, by Kellerman ; 200 Italian fungi, by Saccardo ; 4 large sheets of water-colour drawings of basidiomycetous and ..."

3. Science by American Association for the Advancement of Science (1910)
"... of the basidiomycetous fungi. HS FAWCETT A CORRECTED CLASSIFICATION OF THE EDENTATES IN a recent paper1 the writer was led, from a consideration of ..."

4. Bulletin by United States Bureau of Plant Industry (1902)
"During the past century many students have attempted, with varying degrees of success, to germinate the spores of the basidiomycetous fungi. ..."

5. The Annual Register edited by Edmund Burke (1907)
"Professor AHR Buller has made a study of the basidiomycetous fungus Polyporus squamosus (Journal of Economic Biology) which is a parasite'of such wood as ..."

6. The Natural History of Plants: Their Forms, Growth, Reproduction, and by Anton Kerner von Marilaun, Francis Wall Oliver (1902)
"By many basidiomycetous mycelia the wood is not only changed into a powdery, but even into a liquid mass, as, for example, by the mycelium of the detested ..."

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