epicorium

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English[edit]

Etymology[edit]

From Latin cŏrĭum ("skin") with the Ancient Greek prefix ἐπί- ("on top of").

Noun[edit]

epicorium (plural epicoria)

  1. The pattern of cell wall thickening which forms the ornamentation on spores of certain types of mushroom (especially of family Entolomataceae).

For quotations using this term, see Citations:epicorium.

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