paraphysis
noun
one of the erect, sterile filaments often growing among the reproductive organs in many fungi, mosses, and ferns.
paraphyses
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pluralof paraphysis.plural
The grammatical form denoting more than one person, place, thing, or idea.
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Cystidia and paraphyses may be also classed here.
From Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 11, Slice 3 "Frost" to "Fyzabad" by Various
In some species, however, the paraphyses are rare, and the mucilaginous substance is entirely wanting.
From Student's Hand-book of Mushrooms of America, Edible and Poisonous by Thomas Taylor
These asci are crowded together side by side, and with them are slender empty asci called paraphyses.
From The Mushroom, Edible and Otherwise Its Habitat and its Time of Growth by Miron Elisha Hard
The paraphyses are few, short, separate, clavate, and brownish at the tips.
From The Mushroom, Edible and Otherwise Its Habitat and its Time of Growth by Miron Elisha Hard
Five paraphyses of Rhizocarpon alboatrum to illustrate types of simple and branched forms found in the same hymenium.
From Ohio Biological Survey, Bull. 10, Vol. 11, No. 6 The Ascomycetes of Ohio IV and V by Leafy Jane Corrington Hilker
