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 Campbell, Douglas Houghton

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 Hilker, Leafy Jane Corrington

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 Cooke, M. C. (Mordecai Cubitt)

The mucilage forms itself almost at the same time as the paraphyses, and previous to the formation of the asci.

From Fungi: Their Nature and Uses by Cooke, M. C. (Mordecai Cubitt)

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 Taylor, Thomas

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 Hard, Miron Elisha

A portion of a section of the hymenium of Peltigera canina, showing two asci containing spores, two asci with protoplasmic contents, and five paraphyses.

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