HYPHA (hyphae)

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Irregular inflected form: hyphae   

 Dictionary entry overview: What does hypha mean? 

• HYPHA (noun)
  The noun HYPHA has 1 sense:

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

  Familiarity information: HYPHA used as a noun is very rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• HYPHA (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

Any of the threadlike filaments forming the mycelium of a fungus

Classified under:

Nouns denoting plants

Hypernyms ("hypha" is a kind of...):

fibril; filament; strand (a very slender natural or synthetic fiber)

Hyponyms (each of the following is a kind of "hypha"):

conidiophore (a specialized fungal hypha that produces conidia)

rhizomorph (a dense mass of hyphae forming a root-like structure characteristic of many fungi)

Holonyms ("hypha" is a part of...):

mycelium (the vegetative part of a fungus consisting of a mass of branching threadlike hyphae)

 Context examples 

The mass of interwoven filamentous hyphae that forms especially the vegetative portion of the thallus of a fungus.

(Mycelium, Food and Drug Administration)

This species is spore forming, nonacid-fast, urease negative, catalase positive, hydrolyzes starch, gelatin, esculin, xanthine, and hypoxanthine, reduces nitrate, and produces an aerial hyphae and substrate mycelium that fragments into coccoid elements.

(Nocardia dassonvillei, NCI Thesaurus)

This species is yellow with extensively branched vegetative hyphae without an aerial mycelium which breaks into motile rod shaped elements, is catalase positive, reduces nitrate, hydrolyzes casein, gelatin and starch, is not acid-fast, mesophilic, utilizes acetate, lactate, and pyruvate.

(Oerskovia turbata, NCI Thesaurus)

This species is nonmotile, non-spore forming, catalase and urease positive, reduces nitrate, does not produce acid phosphatase, hydrolyzes esculin and testosterone, but not casein, elastin, hypoxanthine, tyrosine, and xanthine, and produces a mycelium and aerial hyphae that fragments into coccoid elements.

(Nocardia farcinica, NCI Thesaurus)