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- German · derived frompilzhutförmiger Körper
- English todaymushroom body
From mushroom + body, after German pilzhutförmiger Körper.
Etymology from Wiktionary, CC BY-SA 4.0.
mushroom body
Today it means: Either of a pair of structures in the brains of insects and some other arthropods thought to be involved in learning and memory. Full definition →
German pilzhutförmiger Körper