Definition of Basidiomycota

1. Noun. Comprises fungi bearing the spores on a basidium; includes Gasteromycetes (puffballs) and Tiliomycetes comprising the orders Ustilaginales (smuts) and Uredinales (rusts) and Hymenomycetes (mushrooms, toadstools, agarics and bracket fungi); in some classification systems considered a division of kingdom Fungi.


Medical Definition of Basidiomycota

1. A phylum of fungi characterised by a spore-bearing organ, the basidium, that is usually a clavate cell that bears basidiospores after karyogamy and meiosis. Some mycologists have raised the class Basidiomycetes to the phylum or division level. (05 Mar 2000)

Lexicographical Neighbors of Basidiomycota

basic slag
basic stain
basic training
basidia
basidial
Basidiobolus
basidiocarp
basidiolichen
basidiomycete
basidiomycetes
Basidiomycetes
basidiomycetes shitake mushrooms
basidiomycetous
basidiomycetous fungi
Basidiomycota
Basidiomycota
Basidiomycotina
basidiospore
basidiospore
basidiospores
basidiosporous
basidium
basidium
basifacial
basifacial axis
basification
basifications
basified
basifier
basifier

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