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

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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

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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

As in the Discomycetes, the hymenium consists of asci, paraphyses, and mucilage, but the whole forms a less compact and more gelatinous mass within the perithecium.

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

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

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

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

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