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epibasidium

noun
epi·basidium | \ "+ \

Definition of epibasidium 

1 : a superior prolongation of each cell of the basidium of various heterobasidiomycetous fungi (such as members of the order Tremellales) that bears the spore

2 : promycelium

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New Latin, from epi- + basidium

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