| The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language: Fourth Edition. 2000. |
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| apothecium |
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| SYLLABICATION: | ap·o·the·ci·um |
| PRONUNCIATION: |   p  -th  s-m, -sh- |
| NOUN: | Inflected forms: pl. ap·o·the·ci·a (-s-, -sh-)
A disk-shaped or cup-shaped ascocarp of some lichens and the fungi Ascomycetes. | | ETYMOLOGY: | From Latin apothca, storehouse. See apothecary. | | OTHER FORMS: | apo·thecial (-shl) —ADJECTIVE
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