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ETYMOLOGY OF THE WORD PERITHECIUM

From New Latin, from peri- + Greek thēkē case.
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PRONUNCIATION OF PERITHECIUM

perithecium  [ˌpɛrɪˈθiːsɪəm] play
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GRAMMATICAL CATEGORY OF PERITHECIUM

noun
adjective
verb
adverb
pronoun
preposition
conjunction
determiner
exclamation
Perithecium is a noun.
A noun is a type of word the meaning of which determines reality. Nouns provide the names for all things: people, objects, sensations, feelings, etc.

WHAT DOES PERITHECIUM MEAN IN ENGLISH?

perithecium

Ascocarp

An ascocarp, or ascoma, is the fruiting body of an ascomycete fungus. It consists of very tightly interwoven hyphae and may contain millions of asci, each of which typically contains eight ascospores. Ascocarps are most commonly bowl-shaped, but may take on a number of other forms.

Definition of perithecium in the English dictionary

The definition of perithecium in the dictionary is a flask-shaped structure containing asci that are discharged from an apical pore; a type of ascocarp.

WORDS THAT RHYME WITH PERITHECIUM


aecium
ˈiːsɪəm
americium
ˌæməˈrɪsɪəm
amphithecium
ˌæmfɪˈθiːsɪəm
androecium
ænˈdriːsɪəm
apothecium
ˌæpəˈθiːsɪəm
axiom
ˈæksɪəm
calcium
ˈkælsɪəm
coliseum
ˌkɒlɪˈsɪəm
colosseum
ˌkɒləˈsɪəm
dysprosium
dɪsˈprəʊsɪəm
francium
ˈfrænsɪəm
gynaecium
ɡaɪˈniːsɪəm
gynecium
dʒaɪˈniːsɪəm
gynoecium
dʒaɪˈniːsɪəm
lyceum
laɪˈsɪəm
paramaecium
ˌpærəˈmiːsɪəm
paramecium
ˌpærəˈmiːsɪəm
paramoecium
ˌpærəˈmiːsɪəm
potassium
pəˈtæsɪəm
silicium
sɪˈlɪsɪəm

WORDS THAT BEGIN LIKE PERITHECIUM

peritectic
perithecia
perithecial
peritonaeal
peritonaeum
peritonea
peritoneal
peritoneal dialysis
peritoneally
peritoneoscopy
peritoneum
peritonitic
peritonitis
peritrack
peritrich
peritricha
peritrichous
peritrichously
peritus
perityphlitis

WORDS THAT END LIKE PERITHECIUM

aluminium
aquarium
at a premium
Belgium
copernicium
endothecium
hieracium
indicium
lawrencium
lithium
lutecium
medium
millennium
premium
sodium
stadium
symposium
titanium
zooecium
zoothecium

Synonyms and antonyms of perithecium in the English dictionary of synonyms

SYNONYMS

Translation of «perithecium» into 25 languages

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TRANSLATION OF PERITHECIUM

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The translations of perithecium from English to other languages presented in this section have been obtained through automatic statistical translation; where the essential translation unit is the word «perithecium» in English.

Translator English - Chinese

子囊
1,325 millions of speakers

Translator English - Spanish

peritecios
570 millions of speakers

English

perithecium
510 millions of speakers

Translator English - Hindi

perithecium
380 millions of speakers
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Translator English - Arabic

مزقاق
280 millions of speakers

Translator English - Russian

perithecium
278 millions of speakers

Translator English - Portuguese

peritécio
270 millions of speakers

Translator English - Bengali

perithecium
260 millions of speakers

Translator English - French

périthèces
220 millions of speakers

Translator English - Malay

Perithecium
190 millions of speakers

Translator English - German

Peritheciums
180 millions of speakers

Translator English - Japanese

被子器
130 millions of speakers

Translator English - Korean

perithecium
85 millions of speakers

Translator English - Javanese

Perithecium
85 millions of speakers
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Translator English - Vietnamese

perithecium
80 millions of speakers

Translator English - Tamil

perithecium
75 millions of speakers

Translator English - Marathi

पेरीटिशिअम
75 millions of speakers

Translator English - Turkish

perithecium
70 millions of speakers

Translator English - Italian

peritecio
65 millions of speakers

Translator English - Polish

perithecium
50 millions of speakers

Translator English - Ukrainian

perithecium
40 millions of speakers

Translator English - Romanian

perithecium
30 millions of speakers
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Translator English - Greek

perithecium
15 millions of speakers
af

Translator English - Afrikaans

perithecium
14 millions of speakers
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Translator English - Swedish

perithecium
10 millions of speakers
no

Translator English - Norwegian

perithecium
5 millions of speakers

Trends of use of perithecium

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TENDENCIES OF USE OF THE TERM «PERITHECIUM»

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FREQUENCY OF USE OF THE TERM «PERITHECIUM» OVER TIME

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Examples of use in the English literature, quotes and news about perithecium

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10 ENGLISH BOOKS RELATING TO «PERITHECIUM»

Discover the use of perithecium in the following bibliographical selection. Books relating to perithecium and brief extracts from same to provide context of its use in English literature.
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Plant Pathology
Sexual structures the ascocarps are completely closed like cleistothecia but produce their asci in a basal layer. The asci have been described as bitunicate. Genus Sphaerotheca Mycelium superficial, perithecium with one ascus only S.
R. S. Mehrotra, 2003
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A Natural Arrangement of British Plants: According to Their ...
A. Thallus leatherlike, shrublike; apolhecia tubercular ; perithecium 0. Rhizomorphidae. Thallus crustlike, cartilaginous, B. Thallus crustlike ; apolhecia wartlike; perithecium distinct. Variolaridœ. C. Thallus ernst like ; apolhecia wartlike; ...
‎1821
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Competition Science Vision
... structure formed from ascogonium usually after the act of plasmogamy. • According to their shapes ascocarps of higher Ascomycetes may be of five types such as apothecium, perithecium, cleistothecium, ascostromata and hysterothecium.
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Natural Arrangement of British Plants: According to Their ...
123. B. Thallus crustlike; apothecia wartlike; perithecium distinct. Variolaridae. Thallzis crustlike Variolaria. 1 24. C. Thallus crustlike; apothecia wartlike; perithecium distinct. Porinidae. Nucleus single ; perithecium simple, black Pyrenula. 125.
Samuel F. Gray, 1821
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An encyclopædia of plants;: comprising the description, ...
Perithecium dosed, perforated by an orifice, filled by an ascigerous somewhat deliquescent nucleus. 2420. Xylaria. Receptacles stipitate, carnose or suberose. Spherules immersed in the receptacle, and con. taining a gelatinous sporuliferous ...
John Claudius Loudon, Mrs. Loudon (Jane), George Don, 1836
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The Fungi
In the self-fertile species S. fimicola extensive studies on the physiological control of perithecium formation have been carried out and mutants have been obtained that block various steps in perithecium production. Ascospore discharge and its ...
Michael John Carlile, Sarah C. Watkinson, G. W. Gooday, 2001
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Text Book Of Botany Diversity Of Microbes And Cryptogams
They develop a multilayered wall called peridium. It eventually assumes the shape of a flask. Such a fruiting body is known as perithecium. In most of the species of Chaetomium the neck of the perithecium elongates into a beak- like structure.
Singh
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Fungal Physiology
peridium ascus & ascospores stroma perithecial wall ascus & ascospores cleistothecium perithecium stroma ascus & ascospores around it, forming a protoperithecium with the trichogyne projecting out. The trichogyne fuses with a spermatial ...
David H. Griffin, 1996
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Scottish cryptogamic flora, or Coloured figures and ...
L. Perithecium shortly pedicellate, much dilated upwards, transversely striated, black, shining. Lophium mytilinum, Fries, in Vet. Ac. Handl. 1818, p. П6. — Scier. Suec. Exsicc. No. 60. — Syst. Mycol. v. 2. p. 534. Hysterium mytilinum, Pers. Syn.
Robert Kaye Greville, 1825
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Krishna's Diversity of Microbes, Fungi & Lichens
In all species perithecium is initiated by the formation of a coiled branch which is divided into several cells (Fig. 11.1). Hyphae arising fromascogonial stalk or from ' ^ adjacent vegetative cells surround the ascogonium. Perithecial hairs develop ...
Dr. D. K. Awasthi

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