MYCELIUM (mycelia)

Pronunciation (US):

(GB):

Irregular inflected form: mycelia   

 Dictionary entry overview: What does mycelium mean? 

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

1. the vegetative part of a fungus consisting of a mass of branching threadlike hyphae

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

 Dictionary entry details 

• MYCELIUM (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

The vegetative part of a fungus consisting of a mass of branching threadlike hyphae

Classified under:

Nouns denoting plants

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

plant part; plant structure (any part of a plant or fungus)

Meronyms (parts of "mycelium"):

hypha (any of the threadlike filaments forming the mycelium of a fungus)

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

sclerotium (compact usually dark-colored mass of hardened mycelium constituting a vegetative food-storage body in various true fungi; detaches when mature and can give rise to new growth)

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

fungus (an organism of the kingdom Fungi lacking chlorophyll and feeding on organic matter; ranging from unicellular or multicellular organisms to spore-bearing syncytia)

 Context examples 

Any substance or physical agent that inhibits development and kills fungus spores and mycelium.

(Fungicide, NCI Thesaurus)

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

(Hypha, NCI Thesaurus)

“I could see them sipping on the droplets oozing from the mycelium,” he said.

(Mushroom Extract Could Help Save Bees from Virus, The Titi Tudorancea Bulletin)

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 catalase and urease positive, acid-fast, hydrolyzes esculin but not casein, reduces nitrate, and characteristically produces a mycelium that fragments into bacillary and coccoid elements.

(Nocardia asteroides, 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)

The bees actually moved wood chips to access his mushroom’s mycelium, the branching fibers of fungus that look like cobwebs.

(Mushroom Extract Could Help Save Bees from Virus, The Titi Tudorancea Bulletin)

The paper describes how bees given a small amount of his mushroom mycelia extract exhibited remarkable reductions in the presence of viruses associated with parasitic mites that have been attacking, and infecting, bee colonies for decades.

(Mushroom Extract Could Help Save Bees from Virus, The Titi Tudorancea Bulletin)