different between cupulate vs aecidium

English

Etymology

cupule +? -ate

Pronunciation

• (Received Pronunciation) IPA^(key): /?k?pjul?t/

Adjective

cupulate (comparative more cupulate, superlative most cupulate)

1. Cup-shaped.
2. Having or bearing cupules; cupuliferous.

Synonyms

• cup-shaped

English

Alternative forms

• æcidium

Etymology

From New Latin aecidium, the diminutive form of Ancient Greek ????? (aikía, “injury”).However Merriam-Webster takes the origin from the Greek ???????? and refers to the botanist John Hill, in his A General Natural History, or New and Accurate Descriptions of the Animals, Vegetables, and Minerals, of the Different Parts of the World, vol. II, A History of Plants (London: Printed for Thomas Osborne, 1751), p. 64: "We have called this genus, distinguished by its peculiar cells, Æcidium, from the Greek ????????, cellula."

Pronunciation

• (Received Pronunciation) IPA^(key): /i??s?d??m/

Noun

aecidium (plural aecidia or aecidiums)

1. The cupulate fruiting body borne upon the mycelium of certain fungi commonly parasitic upon specimens of the Compositae, Lamiaceae, Leguminosae, and Ranunculaceae families
2. (mycology) A member of the form genus Aecidium.

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See also

• teliospore
• urediniospore

References