ascoma

American  

[a-skoh-muh] / æˈskoʊ mə /

noun

Mycology.

plural

ascomata

1. a fruiting body that bears asci.

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Etymology

Origin of ascoma

From New Latin; ascus, -oma

Example Sentences

These asci are variously shaped bodies and are known in different orders by different names, such as ascoma, apothecium, perithecium, and receptacle.

From The Mushroom, Edible and Otherwise Its Habitat and its Time of Growth by Hard, Miron Elisha

Each oar-port was protected by an ascoma or leather bag, which fitted over the oar, closing the aperture against the wash of the sea without impeding the action of the oar.

From Boating by Woodgate, W. B.

A stout, fleshy plant, stipitate, three to five inches high, bearing a broad, much contorted, brown ascoma.

From The Mushroom, Edible and Otherwise Its Habitat and its Time of Growth by Hard, Miron Elisha