hyphae
- plural of hypha.
Example Sentences
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Both treatments caused the same dramatic effect: the hyphae elongated much more slowly and with a strange nub shape not found in nature.
From Science Daily ● Mar. 25, 2024
Surprisingly, the shapes of actual hyphae found in nature assumed only a small subset of the possible shapes.
From Science Daily ● Mar. 25, 2024
Following the spore-covered body down into the soil, they found a mummified spider swaddled in fungal filaments called hyphae.
From Scientific American ● Sep. 1, 2023
First, exoenzymes are transported out of the hyphae, where they process nutrients in the environment.
From Textbooks ● Jan. 1, 2015
Another simple case is that of the columnar aggregates of sporogenous hyphae in forms like Stilbum, Coremium, &c.
From Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 11, Slice 3 "Frost" to "Fyzabad" by Various
