pseudothecium

Meaning

1. noun An ascocarp resembling a perithecium but whose asci are not regularly organised into a hymenium and are bitunicate, having a double wall which expands when it takes up water and shoots the enclosed spores out suddenly to disperse them.

Similar words

cleistothecium perithecium hypothecium thecium pseudoaethalium unitunicate paracyst ascocarp bitunicate sporidium