BASIDIUM as NOUN

1. Meaning
   • a small club-shaped structure typically bearing four basidiospores at the ends of minute projections
   • unique to basidiomycetes
   Hypernyms(s) basidium is a kind of… Example: animal is a hypernym of mammal, plant is a hypernym of flower
   • reproductive structure (what does reproductive structure mean?)
   Hyponym(s)
   • promycelium (what does promycelium mean?)