autobasidium Biol.
(ɔːtəʊbəˈsɪdɪəm)
[f. auto-1 + basidium.]
A basidium that has no septum.
| 1902 Webster Suppl., Autobasidium, an undivided basidium, characteristic of the Autobasidiomycetes, one of the two groups into which the Basidiomycetes are sometimes divided. 1928 C. W. Dodge tr. Gäumann's Compar. Morphol. Fungi xxv. 412 The basidia in which nuclear division is not followed by formation of septa are called auto- or holobasidia. 1940 Chambers's Techn. Dict. 602 Autobasidium, a basidium which does not become septate. |