aecium
A cuplike fruiting structure of some parasitic rust fungi that contains chains of…A cuplike fruiting structure of some parasitic rust fungi that contains chains of aeciospores.
Meaning
1 sensesA cuplike fruiting structure of some parasitic rust fungi that contains chains of aeciospores.
fruiting body of some rust fungi bearing chains of aeciospores
Origin
From New Latin aecium, from Ancient Greek αἰκίᾱ (aikíā, “injury, insult”). However MerriamFrom New Latin aecium, from Ancient Greek αἰκίᾱ (aikíā, “injury, insult”). However Merriam-Webster relates that aecium is a back-formation from aecidium and is not related to the Greek αἰκίᾱ (aikíā). The word aecium was "introduced as a substitute for aecidium by the Purdue University plant pathologist J. C. Arthur (1850–1942) in an effort to reform terminology for rust fungi; see Terminology of the Spore-Structures in the Uredinales, Botanical Gazette, vol. 39 (Mar., 1905), pp. 219-22."
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Forms
plural: aecia / aeciumsWord family
3 related wordsLessons for this word
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