ostiole
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English[edit]
Etymology[edit]
Noun[edit]
ostiole (plural ostioles)
- (mycology) A small hole or opening through which certain fungi release their mature spores.
- 2010, Helen Gwynne-Vaughan, Fungi: Ascomycetes, Ustilaginales, Uredinales, page 54:
- The Erysiphacae may possibly have given rise to the Laboulbeniales, the only other group in which a single daughter cell of the oogonium is responsible for the asci, and perhaps to the lower Pyrenomycetes also; these, like the Erysiphaceae, have regularly arranged asci, and in Chaetomium fimete the perithecium is without an ostiole.
- (botany) A similar hole or opening in plants, such as the opening of the involuted fig inflorescence through which fig wasps enter to pollinate and breed.
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French[edit]
Noun[edit]
ostiole m or f (plural ostioles)
Further reading[edit]
- “ostiole”, in Trésor de la langue française informatisé [Digitized Treasury of the French Language], 2012.