asci

[ as-ahy ]

noun

1. plural of ascus.

asci

/ ˈæskaɪ; ˈæsaɪ /

noun

1. the plural of ascus

Example Sentences

Many ascomycetes produce their asci in cups, and in the case of the beech orange, the cups are the orange dimples of the golf ball.

From Scientific American

You can count the eight ascospores in this ascus: The tasty, tasty asci of a Morchella sp.

From Scientific American

The conclusion of the epitaph is perplexing: it states that her husband dedicated it to her and her son's memory—under "the axe"—"Sub asci� dedicavit."

From Project Gutenberg

Other series of modifications arise in which the tissues corresponding to the stroma invest the sporogenous hyphal ends, and thus enclose the spores, asci, basidia, &c., in a cavity.

From Project Gutenberg

Exoascine�, a family of parasitic ascomycetous Fungi, distinguished by the absence of any definite fruit-body, the asci being produced in a layer on the surface of the host.

From Project Gutenberg