mycelium

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Scrabble points
17
Words With Friends
21
Letters
8
Pronunciation
/maɪˈsi.li.əm/

Definition of mycelium

1 sense · 1 part of speech · etymology included

noun

  1. (countable, uncountable)The vegetative part of any fungus, consisting of a mass of branching, threadlike hyphae, often underground.

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Etymology

From New Latin mycelium; synchronically, myc- + -el- + -ium, where the infix -el- is of unknown origin, perhaps introduced from a rebracketing of epithelium.

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