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n. (fruiting body English)
Usage examples of "fruiting bodies".
It took a long time for people to understand that the fruiting bodies and mycelium they were seeing were all part of a single gigantic life-form.
Fungi proliferated across the floor, spreading filaments through the leaf litter and erecting fruiting bodies in the shape of umbrellas and globes, platforms and spikes hung about by lace skirts.
A number of the taut fruiting bodies burst beneath the weight of his angular backside.
His story 'Fruiting Bodies' won the British Fantasy Award for the Best Short Story and he has also been the recipient of Fear Magazine's Award for Necroscope III: The Source.
This stenchful mold sprouted obese fruiting bodies like giant, hairy strawberries, which, macerated in the Nurses' jaws, became the hatchlings' nutriment.
They weren't there when I settled down to sleep, but they were there when I woke up: a ring of morbid fruiting bodies - small black mushrooms or puffballs - already rotting and bursting open at the slightest movement, releasing their scarlet spores.
Purple fruiting bodies burst from conelike structures that emerged at random from each shiny coil.
And beneath the black toadstool caps, myriad red spores would form like pollen on the gills of these obscene fruiting bodies.
TUYrBERRIES-Fruiting bodies growing in the tuft of an integral tree.
TUFTBERRIES-Fruiting bodies growing in the tuft of an integral tree.
The path rose up the side of the valley on a 30 degree incline, the borders of the path festooned with the luxurious fruiting bodies of fungi.