hymenium
Americannoun
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hymenia
plural
noun
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hymenia
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Origin of hymenium
From New Latin, dating back to 1820–30; see origin at hymen, -ium
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The shroom has fine, fuzzy hairs that feel like velvet and even has teeth-like structures of its own, also known as hymenium, which are spore-bearing surfaces of a mushroom, typically gills.
From Salon ● Apr. 30, 2023
They have no hymenium and no true basidia, and are non-sexual in their reproduction.
From Student's Hand-book of Mushrooms of America, Edible and Poisonous by Thomas Taylor
But in the Discomycetes the hymenium soon becomes more or less exposed, and in the latter it is enclosed in a perithecium.
From Fungi: Their Nature and Uses by M. C. (Mordecai Cubitt) Cooke
Both kinds of bodies are produced on the hymenium of most, if not all, the Agaricini.
From Fungi: Their Nature and Uses by M. C. (Mordecai Cubitt) Cooke
These classes are again subdivided, according to the disposition of the spores and of the spore bearing surface, called the hymenium, into various families.
From Student's Hand-book of Mushrooms of America, Edible and Poisonous by Thomas Taylor
Other cells called cystidia occur in the hymenia of various species distributed through nearly all the genera of the agarics.
From Studies of American Fungi. Mushrooms, Edible, Poisonous, etc. by George Francis Atkinson
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