paraphysis

American  

[puh-raf-uh-sis] / pəˈræf ə sɪs /

noun

Botany, Mycology.

• paraphyses
  plural

1. one of the erect, sterile filaments often growing among the reproductive organs in many fungi, mosses, and ferns.

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paraphysis British  

/ pəˈræfɪsɪs /

noun

1. any of numerous sterile cells occurring between the sex organs of mosses and algae and between the spore-producing bodies of basidiomycetous and ascomycetous fungi

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paraphysis Scientific  

/ pə-răf′ĭ-sĭs /

• paraphyses
  plural

1. One of the erect sterile filaments often occurring among the reproductive organs of certain fungi, algae, and mosses.

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Other Word Forms

Derived Forms

• paraphysate
  adjective

Inflected Forms

Nouns

• paraphyses
  plural

Etymology

Origin of paraphysis

1855–60; < New Latin < Greek paráphysis literally, a growing beside, by-growth, equivalent to para- para- ¹ + phýsis growth, nature; see physic

Example Sentences

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paraphysis paraphyses

Fig. 59.—Longitudinal section through the summit of a small male plant of Funaria. a, aʹ, antheridia. p, paraphysis.

From Elements of Structural and Systematic Botany For High Schools and Elementary College Courses by Douglas Houghton Campbell

One branched and one unbranched paraphysis of Buellia parasema.

From Ohio Biological Survey, Bull. 10, Vol. 11, No. 6 The Ascomycetes of Ohio IV and V by Leafy Jane Corrington Hilker

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

F, spore sacs and paraphyses of Usnea, × 300.

From Elements of Structural and Systematic Botany For High Schools and Elementary College Courses by Douglas Houghton Campbell

The paraphyses are present, usually slender and round.

From The Mushroom, Edible and Otherwise Its Habitat and its Time of Growth by Miron Elisha Hard

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

This hymenium is composed of a number of swollen, club-shaped cells, called basidia, and close to them, side by side, are sterile, elongated cells, named paraphyses.

From Among the Mushrooms A Guide For Beginners by Ellen M. Dallas