See Also: battlements(dictionary)

urediniospore (iou) and battlements (oh)


urediniospore (iou)



urediniospore noun. E20.
[from UREDINIUM + -O- + SPORE. Cf. UREDIOSPORE, UREDOSPORE.]
Mycology. In the life cycle of a rust fungus, any of the one-celled, freq. reddish, spores which develop on a host plant in the summer and are rapidly spread by the wind to infect Other plants. Cf. TELIOSPORE.

battlements (oh)



a low wall around the top of a castle, that has spaces to shoot guns or arrows through