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mycelium

[ UK /ma‍ɪsˈiːli‍əm/ ]
NOUN
  1. the vegetative part of a fungus consisting of a mass of branching threadlike hyphae

How To Use mycelium In A Sentence

  • It comes out in spots like those which often appear spontaneously on the green young branches of peach trees that have the gum disease; and in these spots it is usual to find Coryneum stromata or mycelium filaments. Scientific American Supplement, No. 441, June 14, 1884.
  • The soil-borne mycorrhizal fungi colonize the root cortex biotrophycally, then develop an external mycelium which is a bridge connecting the root with the surrounding soil microhabitats.
  • But actually it's one of the mycelia, the disconnected islands of Met-like cables that---" "I know what a mycelium is," said Aubry. METAPLANETARY
  • The mold that grows off the surface of these cheeses gives off real small microscopic rootlets called mycelium that actually grow into the cheese and give off enzymes that the mold can feed off of," Lehner says. Chicago Reader
  • But in most states, it is illegal to cultivate or propogate spores into mycelium since mycelium generally contains both psilocybin and psilocin. Naples Daily News Stories
  • Its lifecycle begins in the spring when infective spores are forcibly ejected from reproductive structures that sprout from overwintering pods of black, hardened mycelium called "sclerotia. Boing Boing
  • In order to reach a higher productivity level of mycelium and exopolysaccharide, L934 orthogonal experiments on fermentation with Schizophyllum commune were carried out in 7L fermentor .
  • Virtually no other plants, except for those which need no water, can grow in such soil and the underground progress of the truffle mycelium can be charted by the spread of this barren ground.
  • A vertical section through an apothecium of _Lecidea rupestris_: a, the hymenium, composed of asci and paraphyses; b, the hypothecium; c, the mycelium, the cells of the algal host, and particles of the limestone on which the plant was growing; d, the weak, light-colored, covered exciple. Ohio Biological Survey, Bull. 10, Vol. 11, No. 6 The Ascomycetes of Ohio IV and V
  • In The Line of Polity, the outlink station Miranda is destroyed by sabotage, by a nanomycelium which Dragon supplied. Archive 2010-01-01
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