fruiting body

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   an organ specialized for producing spores

   Broaderplant organ

   Narrowerascocarpacervulusbasidiocarpaecium

Questions about fruiting body

What does fruiting body mean?

fruiting body means "an organ specialized for producing spores".

Is fruiting body a common word?

fruiting body is banded "Rare" — specialist or archaic — most readers will not have met it. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.