Etymology

mycelium

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Today it means: The vegetative part of any fungus, consisting of a mass of branching, threadlike hyphae, often underground. Full definition →

New Latin mycelium
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  1. New Latin · borrowed frommycelium
  2. English todaymycelium

From New Latin mycelium; synchronically, myc- + -el- + -ium, where the infix -el- is of unknown origin, perhaps introduced from a rebracketing of epithelium.

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