nounWord forms: plural-cia (-sɪə) or -cidia (-ˈsɪdɪə)
a globular or cup-shaped structure in some rust fungi in which aeciospores are produced
Word origin
C19: New Latin, from Greek aikia injury (so called because of the damage the fungi cause)
Examples of 'aecia' in a sentence
aecia
The fungus produced amphigenous spermogonia and cupulate, mainly hypophyllous aecia.
Yuan-Min Shen, Tung-Chin Huang, Wen-Hsin Chung, Ting-Hsuan Hung 2016, 'Characterization of Aecidium deutziae, a rust fungus on Deutzia pulchra in Taiwan',Taiwaniahttp://tai2.ntu.edu.tw/taiwania/abstract.php?type=abstract&id=1453. Retrieved from DOAJ CC BY 4.0 (https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/legalcode)