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mazaedia

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ma⋅zae⋅di⋅um

  [muh-zee-dee-uhm]
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–noun, plural -di⋅a [-dee-uh] .
a fruiting body of fungi of the phylum Ascomycota in which there is a powdery mass of spores.
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ma·zae·di·um   (mə-zē'dē-əm)   
n.   pl. ma·zae·di·a (-dē-ə)
A fruiting body of some lichens in which the spores lie freely in a powdery mass that is enclosed in a peridium.

[New Latin : Greek maza, lump; see mag- in Indo-European roots + Latin aedēs, house.]
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