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fruiting body

NOUN
  1. an organ specialized for producing spores

How To Use fruiting body In A Sentence

  • The part of the fungus seen on the flag represents its fruiting body (carpophore), but its dangerous part lies underground.
  • Hymenium - the spore-bearing layer of a fruiting body, containing asci, spores and paraphyses.
  • The cap & stem that we commonly eat is just the fruiting body.
  • The fruiting body of this fungus, what we call the mushroom, is a much more modest 1 to 4 inches by 2 to 6 inches in size. Undefined
  • Coral mushrooms do not have caps but instead have a fruiting body of branched clusters.
  • What it is: The edible fruiting body of a group of subterranean ascomycete fungi of the genus Tuber. The Best Stuff on Earth?!
  • Think of the striking regularity of alternating light and dark stripes on a zebra's coat, or the reticulations on the surface of the fruiting body of a morel mushroom.
  • The Chinese sometimes include zhu ling (they use the sclerotium rather than the fruiting body) as an ingredient in herbal tonic formulas.
  • The Chinese sometimes include zhu ling (they use the sclerotium rather than the fruiting body) as an ingredient in herbal tonic formulas.
  • The mushroom, or toadstool, that we see above ground is the fruiting body that produces spores for further reproduction and is only a part of the fungus.
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