any of numerous sterile cells occurring between the sex organs of mosses and algae and between the spore-producing bodies of basidiomycetous and ascomycetousfungi
Derived forms
paraphysate (paˈraphysate)
adjective
Word origin
C19: New Latin from Greek: subsidiary growth, from para-1 + phusis growth
Examples of 'paraphyses' in a sentence
paraphyses
The paraphyses are diffluent and only fragments were found.
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