Pronunciation: s ə - ' spen(t)-s ə r
Function: noun
Etymology: New Latin, from Latin suspendere
Date: 1832
: a suspending part or structure: as a : a group or chain of cells that is produced from the zygote of a seed plant and serves to push the developing embryo into the endosperm b : either of a pair of gametangia-bearing hyphal outgrowths in fungi (order Mucorales) that extend from two sexually compatible hyphae and support the resulting zygospore