mycelial
Americanadjective
Example Sentences
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The root-like fruiting bodies of mushrooms, also known as mycelial fibers, have shown promising results as the new age, eco-friendly material for a wide range of consumer and industrial applications.
From Science Daily • Jan. 8, 2024
What's more, the mushrooms seemed to transfer this energy underground through mycelial networks to its neighbors, which could be analogous to a sort of communication.
From Salon • May 9, 2023
For hundreds of years people around the world used fungi-based materials, like the suede-like amadou in Transylvania and mycelial textiles in Indigenous North America.
From Los Angeles Times • Feb. 1, 2023
In a few forests, researchers have traced fungi from the roots of one tree to those of others, suggesting that mycelial threads could be providing conduits between trees.
From New York Times • Nov. 7, 2022
The lower plant in Figure 463 shows where the spines have begun to fall, also the strong mycelial cord referred to in the description.
From The Mushroom, Edible and Otherwise Its Habitat and its Time of Growth by Hard, Miron Elisha
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