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English
Etymology
From holobasidi(um) + -ate (adjective-forming suffix).
Adjective
holobasidiate (not comparable)
- (mycology) Being or containing a holobasidium.
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 327:The basidia are holobasidiate, and rarely have adventitious septa in the metabasidium or sterigmata; they also rarely proliferate in apical linear succession.