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as•co•my•cete
Pronunciation: (as"ku-mī'sēt, -mī-sēt'), [key]—
n. Mycol.
any fungus of the phylum Ascomycota (or class Ascomycetes), including the molds and truffles, characterized by bearing the sexual spores in a sac (as distinguished from
basidiomycete). Also called
sac fungus. Random House Unabridged Dictionary, Copyright © 1997, by Random House, Inc., on Infoplease.