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pe·rid·i·um \pəˈridēəm\ noun (plural perid·ia \-ēə\ ; also peridiums) Etymology: New Latin, from Greek pēridion small leather bag, diminutive of pēra leather bag, wallet : the outer envelope of the sporophore of many fungi: as a. : the tough often two-layered cortical investment of the gleba of a gasteromycete b. : the layer of sterile hyphae that surrounds an aecium of a rust fungus |