hypha
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English[edit]
Etymology[edit]
From New Latin hypha, from Ancient Greek ὑφή (huphḗ, “web”).
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Noun[edit]
hypha (plural hyphae)
- (mycology) Any of the long, threadlike filaments that form the mycelium of a fungus.
- 2018, Richard Powers, The Overstory, Vintage (2019), page 272:
- She lays out how fungal hyphae—countless miles of filaments folded up in every spoon of soil—coax open tree roots and tap into them.
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Translations[edit]
filament that forms the mycelium of a fungus
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