One of the lamellæ or the gills forming the hymenium of an agaric. (Perhaps another word.)

The mycelium of mushrooms or other fungi.

fungal mycelium, esp. when embedded in soil or compost for use in mushroom cultivation.

The membranous covering which completely encloses many fungi in the early stage of growth.

Botany and Mycology. = annulus, n. 3.

Mycology. A thin layer of tissue covering all or part of the fruiting body of certain fungi. Frequently with distinguishing word indicating the…

Natural History. In mushrooms or fungi: the velum partiale, a marginal veil hanging from the pileus as a shreddy membrane.

Botany. In Fungi: = volva, n.1

An insoluble nitrogenous polysaccharide which is a major constituent of the cell walls of fungi (later identified as chitin).

Mycology. In certain fungi: a net-, felt-, or crust-like growth covering a substrate, consisting of a mat of hyphae from which fruiting bodies arise.

= curtain, n.1 5a; also, the inner or partial veil in some agarics.

Botany. A membranous structure or covering in certain fungi.

The vegetative tissue (thallus) of a fungus, typically consisting of a network of fine filaments (hyphae); an instance of this.

Botany. In Fungi: (see later quots.).

The fleshy, spore-bearing tissue of certain kinds of fungi, the Gasteromycetes and the Tuberales.

(Martius' name for) the cellular layer supporting the stroma of fungi.

Botany. The lamella in some fungi.

Mycology. = rhizopodium, n. 1. Obsolete. rare.

see quot. 1860.

(a) Botany (see quot. 1860: ? obsolete); (b) Botany the structure which bears the trichogyne in florideous algæ; (c) Zoology one of several…

The structural element of the thallome of Fungi, consisting of long slender branched filaments, usually having transverse septa, and together…

(see quots.).

Mycology. The mycelium of a fungus. Obsolete. rare.

Bot. In fungi: Sometimes applied to the portion of the veil, which remains like a collar round the stalk.

Entangled filamentary matter in fungals, bearing sporidia. (Treasury Bot. 1866.)

Mycology. In certain fungi pathogenic to plants: a flat, typically round mass of hyphae bearing conidiophores which is produced below the…

Transferred uses. A layer of closely interwoven hyphæ produced in certain fungi; also a ‘mat’ of hairs on the stem or leaf of a plant.

Microbiology. A layer of material (typically polysaccharide, sometimes protein) surrounding the cell wall of many bacteria, the presence of which…

a connecting swelling between adjoining cells of the hyphæ of certain fungi.

A hypha within or near the ostiole of a perithecium or pycnidium. Usually in plural.

(see quot. 1900).

(see quot.).

In certain fungi: any of the cells forming branches of the conidiophores and bearing verticils of conidiogenous cells.

The uninucleate, haploid phase of the life cycle of many fungi; the mycelium of this phase.