Zoology and Botany. Provided with or having an operculum; spec. (of a cup fungus) belonging to the order Pezizales. Also: effected by means of an…

Botany and Mycology. Having a membranous or membrane-like covering; spec. (of the fruiting body of a fungus) having a velum or veil (veil, n.1 6d).

Of the gills of certain fungi: reaching, but only narrowly attached to, the stipe or stem.

Esp. of a fungus: having a cap or pileus (pileus, n. 2).

bearing soredia; caused by producing soredia.

Furnished with, rising up in, an umbo or boss. Chiefly Botany.

Botany. Covered with or composed of flocci.

Adhered; (esp. of hyphae) that have grown or become clumped together. Cf. accrete, adj. 1.

Mycology. Designating fungi having spores that are enclosed in or covered by the fruiting body, and the spores of such a fungus. Cf. angiocarpous…

pertaining to, of the nature of, a stylospore.

Like a byssus; having a fringed structure with threads of unequal lengths.

= mycelial, adj.

Resembling a sclerotium.

having the appearance, form, or character of a soredium or soredia.

Having the form of a pileus or cap.

Chiefly Mycology = pileate, adj. Now rare.

= soredioid adj.

pertaining to or of the nature of a tigellule.

Said of an agaric having each perfect lamella or gill separated from the next by four equal short lamellæ and three longer ones alternately…

having a tigelle.

Consisting of, relating to, or characterized by a mycelium.

resembling a xylostroma.

Pertaining to the hymenium.

Of or pertaining to the hypha of a fungus.

Of or relating to an aecidium; characterized by the presence of aecidia; productive of aecidiospores.

of or relating to a pycnidium; having pycnidia; of the nature of a pycnidium.

of or relating to teleutospores.

bearing or characterized by the prevalence of soredia.

Relating to or of the nature of a pollinodium.

= mycelial, adj.

bearing uredospores.

characterized by uredospores.

designating a fungus in which the hymenium is enclosed during the early part of its development; characteristic of such a fungus.

Mycology. Of, relating to, or situated in the periplasm of a fungus.

Composed of interwoven hyphæ.

Of or relating to an aecium; characterized by the presence of aecia; productive of aeciospores.

of, relating to, or of the nature of a pycnium; resulting from pycnia.

of or pertaining to a sporodochium.

designating or (of a fungus) possessing a thallus the whole of which becomes transformed into a reproductive structure at maturity.

Uninucleate; (Mycology) of, belonging to, or of the nature of a monokaryon.

of or relating to a protoperithecium or protoperithecia; possessing a protoperithecium.

Of or relating to the parathecium of a lichen.