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n. Any of the threadlike filaments forming the mycelium of a fungus.

n. Any of the long, threadlike filaments that form the mycelium of a fungus.

n. any of the threadlike filaments forming the mycelium of a fungus. See hyphae.

n. The element of a thallus in Fungi; a cylindric threadlike branched body consisting of a membrane inclosing protoplasm, developing by apical growth, and usually becoming transversely septate as it develops, Göbel.

n. any of the threadlike filaments forming the mycelium of a fungus

"Also in the common gray mould of infusions and preserves, Penicillium, by a process which is perhaps intermediate between budding and cell-division, a cell at the end of a hypha constricts itself in several places, and the constricted portions become separate as _conidiospores_."

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hyphae