ALL meanings of basidiomycete
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B b - noun basidiomycete any fungus of the phylum Basidiomycota (formerly class Basidiomycetes), in which the spores are produced in basidia. The group includes boletes, puffballs, smuts, and rusts 3
- noun basidiomycete any of a subdivision (Basidiomycotina) of fungi, including the mushrooms, rusts, smuts, and puffballs, that produce spores on basidia; club fungus 3
- noun basidiomycete A fungus whose spores develop in basidia. Basidiomycetes include the majority of familiar mushrooms and toadstools. 1
- noun basidiomycete Mycology. any of a group of fungi constituting the phylum Basidiomycota of the kingdom Fungi (or, in older classification schemes, the class Basidiomycetes of the kingdom Plantae), characterized by bearing the spores on a basidium, including the smuts, rust, mushrooms, and puffballs. 1
- noun basidiomycete (mycology) Any fungus of the phylum Basidiomycota, that produces sexual spores on a basidium. 0