Definitions
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.
- noun Any of the threadlike filaments forming the mycelium of a fungus.
- noun Any of the threadlike filaments produced by certain bacteria.
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun 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.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- noun any of the threadlike filaments forming the mycelium of a fungus. See
hyphae .
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- noun mycology Any of the long, threadlike
filaments that form themycelium of afungus .
from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
- noun any of the threadlike filaments forming the mycelium of a fungus
Etymologies
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 4th Edition
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Examples
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Saprophytic bacteria can readily make their way down the dead hypha of an invading fungus, or into the punctures made by insects, and Aphides have been credited with the bacterial infection of carnations, though more recent researches by Woods go to show the correctness of his conclusion that Aphides alone are responsible for the carnation disease.
Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 3, Part 1, Slice 2 "Baconthorpe" to "Bankruptcy"
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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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Growth of the fungi is confined to the apex or end of the hypha cell.
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(C) Magnification of boxed area in (A) and (B) showing a hypha with the first and second septum as referred to in the text.
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A closer look shows that fungi are made of thread-like cells called hypha.
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A closer look shows that fungi are made of thread-like cells called hypha.
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Plugging of a septal pore depends on its position in the hypha and the presence of glucose in the medium.
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A common thought for 50 years has been that the hypha direct their growth to the apex of their cell through outward flow of growth material forming a longer and longer blimp-like shape.
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Compartments before (A, E) and after (B-D, F-H) dissection of a hypha with a closed (A-D) and an open (E-H) septum.
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"We think the hypha is recycling material," he said.
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