Definitions
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.
- noun One of the erect sterile filaments often occurring among the reproductive organs of certain fungi, algae, and mosses.
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun An outgrowth of the roof of the fore-brain, developed in front of the epiphysis, in the hinder region of the prosencephalon.
- noun An erect, usuallycolorless,sterile, unicellular or pluricellular filament or plate accompanying the spore-bearing or sexual organs of cryptogamous plants.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- noun (Bot.) A minute jointed filament growing among the archegonia and antheridia of mosses, or with the spore cases, etc., of other flowerless plants.
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- noun botany A minute
jointed filament growing among thearchegonia andantheridia ofmosses , or with thespore cases , etc., of otherflowerless plants .
from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
- noun a sterile simple or branched filament or hair borne among sporangia; may be pointed or clubbed
Etymologies
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 4th Edition
[New Latin : para– + Greek phusis, nature, growth; see physic.]
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From Ancient Greek beside + growth.
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Examples
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-- Longitudinal section through the summit of a small male plant of _Funaria_. _a_, _aʹ_, antheridia. _p_, paraphysis.
Elements of Structural and Systematic Botany For High Schools and Elementary College Courses Douglas Houghton Campbell
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One branched and one unbranched paraphysis of _Buellia parasema_.
Ohio Biological Survey, Bull. 10, Vol. 11, No. 6 The Ascomycetes of Ohio IV and V Leafy Jane Corrington Hilker 1894
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Was repeatedly wool area rug for the lawn, what i solidity to haematochezia is how anywhere all this groundcover was for the declassified paraphysis.
Rational Review 2009
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