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.
Example Sentences
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The interior of the perithecium is occupied by a gelatinous nucleus, consisting of elongated cylindrical asci, each enclosing eight globose hyaline sporidia, with slender branched paraphyses.
From Fungi: Their Nature and Uses by M. C. (Mordecai Cubitt) Cooke
Changed "paraphesis" to "paraphyses" on page 7 of part 2: "spore sack and paraphyses."
From Student's Hand-book of Mushrooms of America, Edible and Poisonous by Thomas Taylor
A portion of a section through an apothecium of Peltigera canina, showing part of the hymenium of interwoven hyphae below and the bases of three paraphyses above.
From Ohio Biological Survey, Bull. 10, Vol. 11, No. 6 The Ascomycetes of Ohio IV and V by Leafy Jane Corrington Hilker
The hymenium itself consists of elongated fertile cells, or asci, mixed with linear thread-like barren cells, called paraphyses, which are regarded by some authors as barren asci.
From Fungi: Their Nature and Uses by M. C. (Mordecai Cubitt) Cooke
These asci are generally intermixed with slender, empty asci, or sterile cells, called paraphyses.
From The Mushroom, Edible and Otherwise Its Habitat and its Time of Growth by Miron Elisha Hard
