microcyclic, a. Bot.
(maɪkrəʊˈsaɪklɪk)
[f. micro- 1 b + cyclic a.]
Of a plant rust: having a short life cycle.
| 1926 [see macrocyclic a. 1]. 1950 E. A. Bessey Morphol & Taxon. Fungi xii. 396 These last two are properly speaking microcyclic rusts. 1970 J. Webster Introd. Fungi 376 Some rusts have only telia, with or without pycnia, and are said to be microcyclic. |