What is "hyphae"

Usage examples of "hyphae".

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.

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.

When all the fuel in that tank had been exhausted it sent hyphae out across the tank’s surface until it located a way out.

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.

It trapped the worms within the ringed snares strung along its adhesive network of hyphae and then used a penetration knob to enter their bodies, pump toxin into them, and spread out a cluster of special feeding hyphae that grew out along the length of the worms’ bodies.

These hyphae would liquefy the worms’ tissues and absorb the digested food until only the skins remained.

In his mouth the probing, thread-like hyphae picked his teeth clean of every particle of food.

Settling on branches and leaves, these formed hyphae that reproduced in situ to create new growths, new mycelium.

So Hasa brushed red dust that was actually emukawa hyphae from Masurathoo's sloping shoulders, Jemunu-jah picked needle-rooted bohlaka seedlings from Hasa's bald pate before they could take root, and Masurathoo delicately and somewhat tentatively groomed the fur on the Sakuntala's back in search of arthropoidal flyers who sought to lay their eggs therein.

Not part of one, but a whole one, to see how far the spawn and the hyphae actually extend?

Its hyphae can reproduce above the water during the Big Wet and on the ground in the short season when the water recedes and dry land lies exposed.