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MYCELIUM
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Irregular inflected form: mycelia
I. (noun)
Sense 1
Meaning:
The vegetative part of a fungus consisting of a mass of branching threadlike hyphae
Classified under:
Hypernyms ("mycelium" is a kind of...):
plant part; plant structure (any part of a plant or fungus)
Meronyms (parts of "mycelium"):
hypha (any of the threadlike filaments forming the mycelium of a fungus)
Hyponyms (each of the following is a kind of "mycelium"):
sclerotium (compact usually dark-colored mass of hardened mycelium constituting a vegetative food-storage body in various true fungi; detaches when mature and can give rise to new growth)
Holonyms ("mycelium" is a part of...):
fungus (an organism of the kingdom Fungi lacking chlorophyll and feeding on organic matter; ranging from unicellular or multicellular organisms to spore-bearing syncytia)
