Synonyms/Hypernyms (Ordered by Estimated Frequency) of noun conidium

1 sense of conidium

Sense 1
conidium, conidiospore -- (an asexually produced fungal spore formed on a conidiophore)
       => spore -- (a small usually single-celled asexual reproductive body produced by many nonflowering plants and fungi and some bacteria and protozoans and that are capable of developing into a new individual without sexual fusion; "a sexual spore is formed after the fusion of gametes")