This glossary explains biological, botanical, zoological and mycological terms, as well as terms used in cecidology. It is intended to make the numerous technical terms used in the photo gallery and on the information pages of this website easier to understand.
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Immature
Being in the juvenile stage before sexual maturity.
Imperfect fungi
Imperfect fungi, also called Fungi imperfecti (Deuteromycetes), are higher fungi (ascomycetes, basidiomycetes or zygomycetes) whose life cycle lacks a known sexual stage or in which the sexual stage has not yet been discovered. Reproduction occurs through asexual spores (conidia) or purely vegetatively.
Inquiline
Inquilines are animal species that live in abandoned but still inhabited galls, mines, galleries or nests of other species.
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