conidiumn.

1861 R. Bentley Man. Bot. i. v. 386 These conidia may be regarded as a fourth kind of reproductive organ.

1882 S. H. Vines tr. J. von Sachs Text-bk. Bot. (ed. 2) 233 All other unicellular and non-sexual organs of reproduction we shall not term spores, but gonidia or conidia.

1925 C. H. Browning Bacteriol. iv. 67 The higher bacteria, like the fungi, develop special structures known as ‘conidia’, and these conidia then grow into the bacterial forms.

1934 A. T. Henrici Biol. Bacteria vi. 99 The Actinomycetes proper multiply by means of spores, or conidia, which, like the conidia of Fungi belonging to the Ascomycetes or Fungi imperfecti, are formed by a constriction of cells at the ends of filaments of the mycelium projecting into the air... Apparently, then, these Actinomycetes are just like molds in their essential characters, and indeed some authorities would classify them with the higher Fungi rather than with the bacteria.

1960 C. F. Robinow in Gunsalus & Stanier Bacteria I. v. 229 Although this chapter is supposedly dealing with the endospore of bacteria, we may, in truth, be concerned with something which may have to be regarded as a cross between a conidium and a chlamydospore.

1969 S. T. Lyles Biol. Microorganisms viii. 174 Actinomycetes produce true mycelia, which may contain irregular segments and branches; conidia may be produced. Although not true bacteria, these procaryotic fungilike forms differ from true fungi in many respects and are still grouped with bacteria.

1874 M. C. Cooke Fungi 73 Only conidial forms of higher fungi.

1874 M. C. Cooke Fungi 74 Which is really the conidiiferous form of Erysiphe.

1874 M. C. Cooke Fungi 73 The species found on dead insects..are merely the conidiophores of species of Torrubia.

1882 S. H. Vines tr. J. von Sachs Text-bk. Bot. (ed. 2) 264 The mass..which fills up the space between the conidia in the conidiophore of the Mucorini.