mycelium
The vegetative part of any fungus, consisting of a mass of branching, threadlike hyphae, often underground.
A kind of
- plant part
Related words
- myceloid
- mycelioid
- mycelial
- myceliogenic
- mycelian
- promycelium
- pseudomycelium
Word history
From New Latin "mycelium".
Where this comes from
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