fruit body

noun

1. a variant of fruiting body

Example Sentences

The form of the fruit body, the difference and the nature of special outgrowths upon it—the appendages—are characteristic of the various genera.

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The ascocarps can be distinguished into two portions, a mass of sterile or vegetative hyphae forming the main mass of the fruit body, and surrounding the fertile ascogenous hyphae which bear at their ends the asci.

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In the Helvellaceae there is no apothecium but a large irregular fruit body which at maturity bears the asci on its surface.

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A process now in vogue in some parts of Germany, is to steam the fruit bodies, remove the outer crust, and then, by machinery constructed for the purpose, shave the fruit body into a long, thin strip by revolving it against a knife in much the same way that certain woods are shaved into thin strips for the manufacture of baskets, plates, etc.

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The genus Gyrocephalus differs from the other Tremellineæ in having the fruiting surface on the lower side of the fruit body, while the upper side is sterile.

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