Definitions
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.
- noun A disk-shaped or cup-shaped ascocarp of some lichens and ascomycetous fungi.
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun In botany, the fruit of lichens, usually an open, rounded, shield- or dish-shaped body attached to the surface, as in gymnocarpous lichens, or globular and immersed in the substance of the thallus, as in the angiocarpous series of genera.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- noun (Bot.) The ascigerous fructification of lichens, forming masses of various shapes.
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- noun The
ascigerous fructification oflichens , forming masses of various shapes.
from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
- noun a cuplike ascocarp in many lichens and ascomycetous fungi
Etymologies
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 4th Edition
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Examples
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Nylander called the apothecium pale within, but forms with red-brown hypothecia are admitted by later writers.
Ohio Biological Survey, Bull. 10, Vol. 11, No. 6 The Ascomycetes of Ohio IV and V Leafy Jane Corrington Hilker 1894
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A portion of a section through an apothecium of _Peltigera canina_, showing part of the hymenium of interwoven hyphae below and the bases of three paraphyses above.
Ohio Biological Survey, Bull. 10, Vol. 11, No. 6 The Ascomycetes of Ohio IV and V Leafy Jane Corrington Hilker 1894
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A vertical section through an apothecium of _Lecidea rupestris_: a, the hymenium, composed of asci and paraphyses; b, the hypothecium; c, the mycelium, the cells of the algal host, and particles of the limestone on which the plant was growing; d, the weak, light-colored, covered exciple.
Ohio Biological Survey, Bull. 10, Vol. 11, No. 6 The Ascomycetes of Ohio IV and V Leafy Jane Corrington Hilker 1894
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No species showed any great luxuriance, and seldom did the black and white lichen-crust produce any 'apothecium,' The lichen-vegetation was most abundant on the driftwood of the beach and on the tufts in the marshes.
The Voyage of the Vega round Asia and Europe, Volume I and Volume II Alexander Leslie 1866
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