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ASCOMYCETES

\ɐskˈɒma͡ɪsˌiːts], \ɐskˈɒma‍ɪsˌiːts], \ɐ_s_k_ˈɒ_m_aɪ_s_ˌiː_t_s]\

Definitions of ASCOMYCETES

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1898 - American pocket medical dictionary
1916 - Appleton's medical dictionary

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A phylum of fungi which have cross-walls or septa in the mycelium. The perfect state is characterized by the formation of a saclike cell (ascus) containing ascospores. Most pathogenic fungi with a known perfect state belong to this phylum.

2010 - Medical Dictionary Database
By DataStellar Co., Ltd

A genus of fungi.

1898 - American pocket medical dictionary
By Willam Alexander Newman Dorland

One of the three classes of the fungi having special sacs or asci containing spores. [Gr.]

1916 - Appleton's medical dictionary
By Smith Ely Jelliffe

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