Ascus

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  • noun. A membranous, often club-shaped structure in ascomycetes in which karyogamy occurs, followed by the formation of eight haploid ascospores.
    • The Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia
  • noun. In botany, the spore-case of lichens and ascomycetous fungi, consisting of a single cell, usually the swollen terminal cell of a branch of a hypha, from the protoplasm of which the spores (typically 8) are produced. Also called ascidium and theca.
  • noun. In archœol., same as askos.
    • the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English
  • noun. A small membranous bladder or tube in which are inclosed the seedlike reproductive particles or sporules of lichens and certain fungi.
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  • noun. A sac-shaped cell present in ascomycete fungi; it is a reproductive cell in which meiosis and an additional cell division produce eight spores.
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  • noun. saclike structure in which ascospores are formed through sexual reproduction of ascomycetes
    • Word Usage
    "The mildews may be divided into two genera: _Podosphæra_, with a single ascus in the spore fruit; and _Erysiphe_, with two or more."
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    reproductive structure  
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