Definitions For Aecidium

Noun

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 family, families (mycology) A member of the form genus aecidium.

Related terms

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Translations

Portuguese: ecídio, m

See also

teliospore urediniospore

References

Alternative forms

æcidium

Etymology

From {{etyl, NL., en}} aecidium, the diminutive form of (Ancient Greek)  αἰκία, , injury.“” listed in the Oxford English Dictionary, second edition, 1989 However Merriam-Webster takes the origin from the Greek οικιδιον 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." listed in the online Merriam-Webster. Retrieved 4 June 2018.