pseudothecium

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Noun

1. An [[ascocarp]] resembling a [[perithecium]] but whose [[asci]] are not regularly organised into a [[hymenium]] and are [[bitunicate]], having a double wall which expands when it takes up water and shoots the enclosed [[spore]]s out suddenly to [[disperse]] them.

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