Word Pronunciation & Dictionary

ostiole

Word Rarity Very rare

Frequency: Zipf frequency 0.00 in modern English

Syllables: os-ti-ole
IPA

7

Scrabble Score

7

Letters

3

Syllables

6

Unique Chars

Meaning

noun

A small hole or opening through which certain fungi release their mature spores.

noun

A similar hole or opening in plants, such as the opening of the involuted fig inflorescence through which fig wasps enter to pollinate and breed.

Example Sentences

"The Erysiphacae may possibly have given rise to the Laboulbeniales, the only other group in which a single daughter cell of the oogonium is responsible for the asci, and perhaps to the lower Pyrenomycetes also; these, like the Erysiphaceae, have regularly arranged asci, and in Chaetomium fimete the perithecium is without an ostiole."

Etymology

Borrowed from Latin ostiolum.

Origin

Source language: Latin

Word Breakdown

Root: ostiolum

Subject

Wiktionary places this term in Medicine.

Inflected Forms

ostioles (plural)

Derived Forms

ostiolar ostiolate

Questions

What does ostiole mean?: A small hole or opening through which certain fungi release their mature spores.
Where does ostiole come from?: It is traced to Latin.

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