hyphaelike

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adjective

Resembling hyphae.

Scrabble 25

Meanings

adjectivehyphaelike (comparative more hyphaelike, superlative most hyphaelike)

comparative more hyphaelike · superlative most hyphaelike

  1. biologyResembling hyphae.
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    The three genera included by Donk unaccounted for elsewhere are those in which the fruitbody is strictly effused: Tomentella (including Pseudotomentella and Tomentellastrum) and Kneiffiella P. Karst. (nymenophore smooth or warty, K. being distinguished from T. by the protruding hyphaelike cystidia) and Caldesiella (hymenophore has teeth with sterile tips).

    1965, C. G. Ainsworth, Frederick K[roeber] Sparrow, Alfred S. Sussman, editors, The Fungi: An Advanced Treatise, volume IVB (A Taxonomic Review with Keys: Basidomycetes and Lower Fungi), New York, N.Y.; London: Academic Press, →ISBN, page 329

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