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aecium.

A cuplike fruiting structure of some parasitic rust fungi that contains chains of aeciospores.

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noun/ˈiːs.i.əm/
  1. A cuplike fruiting structure of some parasitic rust fungi that contains chains of aeciospores.

Where this word comes from

From New Latin aecium, from Ancient Greek αἰκίᾱ (aikíā, “injury, insult”). However Merriam-Webster relates that aecium is a back-formation from aecidium and is not related to the Greek αἰκίᾱ (aikíā). The word aecium was "introduced as a substitute for aecidium by the Purdue University plant pathologist J. C. Arthur (1850–1942) in an effort to reform terminology for rust fungi; see Terminology of the Spore-Structures in the Uredinales, Botanical Gazette, vol. 39 (Mar., 1905), pp. 219-22."

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