hyphan.
/ˈhʌɪfə/, U.S. /ˈhaɪfə/ Botany.
The structural element of the thallome of Fungi, consisting of long slender branched filaments, usually having transverse septa, and together constituting the mycelium.
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chive1721
spawn1731
mushroom spawn1753
volva1753
ring1777
veil1777
curtain1796
wrapper1796
fungin1813
subiculum1821
cortina1832
velum1832
mycelium1836
uterus1836
gleba1847
hypostroma1855
sulcus1856
rhizopod1859
tigellule1860
trichophore1860
hypha1866
hypothecium1866
rhizopodium1866
annulus1871
capillitium1871
acervulus1872
weft1875
capsule1883
clamp-connection1887
periphysis1887
chain gemma1893
trumpet hypha1900
metula1915
monokaryon1935
1866 in J. Lindley & T. Moore Treasury Bot.
1874 M. C. Cooke Fungi 14 In Chionyphe Carteri the threads grow over the cysts exactly as the hypha of lichens is represented as growing over the gonidia.
1875 A. W. Bennett & W. T. T. Dyer tr. J. von Sachs Text-bk. Bot. 267 In Usnea barbata the growth in length and thickness and the internal differentiation of the tissue depend entirely on the hyphæ, and..the gonidia behave like foreign bodies in the hyphal tissue.
1897 J. C. Willis Man. Flowering Plants I. 23 In most of our forest trees and in many other plants, the root-hairs are replaced by a fungus whose hyphæ absorb the products of decay in organic matter..in the same way.
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