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The vegetative part of any fungus, consisting of a mass of branching, threadlike hyphae, often underground.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Usage: countable, uncountable
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Antonyms: none provided
the vegetative part of a fungus consisting of a mass of branching threadlike hyphae
Definition source: Princeton WordNet 3.0
No example sentence was provided for this meaning.
Meaning relationships
Synonyms: none provided
Antonyms: none provided
Broader terms: plant part, plant structure
Narrower terms: sclerotium
From New Latin mycelium; synchronically, myc- + -el- + -ium, where the infix -el- is of unknown origin, perhaps introduced from a rebracketing of epithelium.
Across languages
Translations
39 source translations are retained for this English entry.
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Catalan:
miceli
— vegetative part of a fungus
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Chinese Mandarin:
菌絲 /菌丝
(jūnsī)
— vegetative part of a fungus
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Chinese Mandarin:
菌根
— vegetative part of a fungus
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Czech:
podhoubí
— vegetative part of a fungus
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Czech:
mycelium
— vegetative part of a fungus
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Esperanto:
micelio
— vegetative part of a fungus
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Estonian:
niidistik
— vegetative part of a fungus
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Estonian:
seeneniidistik
— vegetative part of a fungus
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Estonian:
mütseel
— vegetative part of a fungus
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Finnish:
sienirihmasto
— vegetative part of a fungus
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French:
mycélium
— vegetative part of a fungus
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German:
Myzel
— vegetative part of a fungus
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German:
Myzelium
— vegetative part of a fungus
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Hebrew:
תַּפְטִיר
(taftír)
— vegetative part of a fungus
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Hungarian:
micélium
— vegetative part of a fungus
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Hungarian:
szövedék
— vegetative part of a fungus
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Hungarian:
gombaszövedék
— vegetative part of a fungus
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Hungarian:
tenyésztest
— vegetative part of a fungus
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Icelandic:
mýsli
— vegetative part of a fungus
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Irish:
mícéiliam
— vegetative part of a fungus
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Italian:
micelio
— vegetative part of a fungus
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Latvian:
sēņotne
— vegetative part of a fungus
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Latvian:
micēlijs
— vegetative part of a fungus
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Lithuanian:
grybiena
— vegetative part of a fungus
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Norwegian Bokmål:
mycel
— vegetative part of a fungus
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Norwegian Nynorsk:
mycel
— vegetative part of a fungus
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Occitan:
micèli
— vegetative part of a fungus
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Polish:
grzybnia
— vegetative part of a fungus
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Portuguese:
micélio
— vegetative part of a fungus
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Romanian:
miceliu
— vegetative part of a fungus
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Russian:
мице́лий
(micélij)
— vegetative part of a fungus
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Russian:
грибни́ца
(gribníca)
— vegetative part of a fungus
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Slovene:
micelij
— vegetative part of a fungus
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Slovene:
podgobje
— vegetative part of a fungus
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Spanish:
micelio
— vegetative part of a fungus
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Swedish:
mycel
— vegetative part of a fungus
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Tagalog:
sanghiblayan
— vegetative part of a fungus
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Ukrainian:
грибни́ця
(hrybnýcja)
— vegetative part of a fungus
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Ukrainian:
міце́лій
(micélij)
— vegetative part of a fungus