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Wordnet 3.0

NOUN (1)

1. a small club-shaped structure typically bearing four basidiospores at the ends of minute projections; unique to basidiomycetes;


The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48:

Basidium \Ba*sid"i*um\, n. [NL., dim. of Gr. ba`sis base.] (Bot.) A special oblong or pyriform cell, with slender branches, which bears the spores in that division of fungi called Basidiomycetes, of which the common mushroom is an example. [1913 Webster]
WordNet (r) 3.0 (2006):

basidium n 1: a small club-shaped structure typically bearing four basidiospores at the ends of minute projections; unique to basidiomycetes