aecidium
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See also: Aecidium
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Etymology[edit]
From New Latin aecidium, the diminutive form of Ancient Greek αἰκίᾱ (aikíā, “injury”).[1] However Merriam-Webster takes the origin from Ancient Greek οἰκίδιον (oikídion) and refers to the botanist John Hill, in his A General Natural History, or New and Accurate Descriptions of the Animals, Vegetables, and Minerals, of the Different Parts of the World, vol. II, A History of Plants (London: Printed for Thomas Osborne, 1751), p. 64: "We have called this genus, distinguished by its peculiar cells, Æcidium, from the Greek οικιδιον, cellula."[2]
Pronunciation[edit]
- (Received Pronunciation) IPA(key): /iːˈsɪdɪəm/
Noun[edit]
aecidium (plural aecidia or aecidiums)
- The cupulate fruiting body borne upon the mycelium of certain fungi commonly parasitic upon specimens of the Compositae, Lamiaceae, Leguminosae, and Ranunculaceae families
- (mycology) A member of the form genus Aecidium.
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Translations[edit]
the cupulate fruiting body borne upon the mycelium of certain fungi
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