phycomycete

phycomycete
phy·co·my·cete .fī-kō-'mī-.sēt, -.mī-'sēt n any fungus of two subdivisions of lower fungi (Mastigomycotina and Zygomycotina of the division Eumycota) that have a body ranging from an undifferentiated mass of protoplasm to a well-developed and much-branched coenocytic mycelium and that reproduce mainly asexually by the formation of conidia or sporangia but include forms reproducing by nearly every transitional method from simple conjugation to sexual reproduction by the union of egg and sperm
phy·co·my·ce·tous -.mī-'sēt-əs adj

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