- Stroma by Webster's
... n.) A layer or mass of cellular tissue, especially that part of the thallus of certain fungi which incloses the perithecia.(n.) The spongy, colorless framework of a red blood corpuscle or other cell.(n.) The connective tissue or supporting framework of an organ; as, the stroma of the kidney.
- Sphaeriales by Colby Thornton
... mycology) An order of fungi in the subclass Euascomycetes characterized by hard, dark perithecia with definite ostioles.
- Pyrenulales by Josephine Bishop
... botany) An order of the class Ascolichenes including only those lichens with perithecia that contain true paraphyses and unitunicate asci.
- clypeus by Courtney Crawford
... zoology) An anterior medial plate on the head of an insect, commonly bearing the labrum on its anterior margin.(mycology) A disk of black tissue about the mouth of the perithecia in certain ascomycetes.
- Rosellinia by WordNet
nounFungi having smooth perithecia with dark one-celled ascospores.synonyms: genus Rosellinia