(definition) by Webster 1913 Wed Dec 22 1999 at 2:23:29

Pyc*nid"i*um (?), n.; pl. Pycnidia (#). [NL., fr. Gr. crowded.] Bot.

In certain fungi, a flask-shaped cavity from the surface of the inner walls of which spores are produced.

 

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