a. Bot. [f. mod.L. asc-us + -(I)GEROUS producing.] Bearing or producing asci (see ASCUS).

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1829.  Loudon, Encycl. Plants (1841), 982. An ascigerous somewhat deliquescent nucleus.

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1857.  Berkeley, Cryptog. Bot., § 235. This mode of fructification is called ascigerous.

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