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Concise Oxford English Dictionary © 2008 Oxford University Press:
ascus /ˈaskəs/

▶noun (pl. asci /ˈaskʌɪ, -iː/) Botany a sac in which the spores of ascomycete fungi develop.

– origin C19: mod. L., from Gk askos ‘bag’.

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