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hypha
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A hypha (plural hyphae , from Greek ὑφή, huphḗ, “web”) is a long, branching filamentous structure of a fungus , oomycete , or actinobacterium . In most fungi, hyphae are the main mode of vegetative growth, and are collectively called a mycelium . Yeasts ...
The Collaborative International Dictionary
Word definitions in The Collaborative International Dictionary
hypha \hypha\, n.; pl. hyphae . any of the threadlike filaments forming the mycelium of a fungus. See hyphae .
WordNet
Word definitions in WordNet
n. any of the threadlike filaments forming the mycelium of a fungus [also: hyphae (pl)]
Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
Word definitions in Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
1866, from Modern Latin plural hyphae (1810), from Greek hyphe (singular) "web."
Wiktionary
Word definitions in Wiktionary
n. (context mycology English) Any of the long, threadlike filaments that form the mycelium of a fungus.
Usage examples of hypha.
Bacteria, microscopic seeds, and, of course, fungal spores and fragments of the thread-like hyphae that make up a fungus.
Its thin hyphae, which would have been almost invisible in daylight, spread out over the ground toward the heat source.
The tips of the hyphae touched their damp feet and began to feed on the dead outer layer of the epidermis.
Continuing to mutate, the fungi forced its hyphae into the microscopic fissures within the aluminum skin of the tanks, having already consumed the lining of rubber sealant.
Large sections of skin eaten away, serious damage to the internal organs from the penetrating hyphae, and so on.
The peridioles fly out of the trumpet and the trailing spring-like hyphae sticks to any leaf or twig it touches, coiling itself tightly.
As the hyphae spread threateningly towards them Kimberley ran to the flame-thrower.
Fibrous hyphae grew from the slime, radiating across the concrete, over pipes, up walls, and onto the ceiling .
Around her waist is a bracelet of wrought glass, carrying tiny patterns of metal filaments, which send silver hyphae into the flesh of her arm, reaching for the autonomic nerves.
Fungal hyphae occur in the rhizoids and in the cells of the lower region of the thallus of many liverworts, as in the endotrophic mycorhiza of higher plants.
As the hyphae spread threateningly towards them Kimberley ran to the flame-thrower.
They're a ghost-memory of alien life, an order of thermophilic quasi fungi with hyphae ridged in actin/myosin analogues, muscular and slippery filter feeders that eat airborne unicellular organisms.
Its thin hyphae, which would have been almost invisible in daylight, spread out over the ground toward the heat source.
The tips of the hyphae touched their damp feet and began to feed on the dead outer layer of the epidermis.
Bacteria, microscopic seeds, and, of course, fungal spores and fragments of the thread-like hyphae that make up a fungus.