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English
Etymology
From basidium + -carp.
Noun
basidiocarp (plural basidiocarps)
- (mycology) A mushroom which has basidia.
1965, C. G. Ainsworth, Frederick K Sparrow, Alfred S. Sussman, editors, The Fungi: An Advanced Treatise, volume IVB (A Taxonomic Review with Keys: Basidomycetes and Lower Fungi), New York, N.Y., London: Academic Press, →ISBN, page 422:For agariclike basidiocarps not discharging spores from the sterigmata, see the secotioid Gasteromycetes.
2012, Bozzano G Luisa, Insect-Fungus Interactions, page 74:The sexual stage of the fungus, the basidiocarp, arises as a pseudorhiza from a fungus comb and continues as a stipe, terminating in a cap with a prominent umbo or perforatorium.