English Explanatory Dictionary

mushroom body

English dictionary entry

Meanings

noun
  1. Either of a pair of structures in the brains of insects and some other arthropods thought to be involved in learning and memory.

Word forms

mushroom body mushroom bodies

Etymology

From mushroom + body, after German pilzhutförmiger Körper.

Synonyms

corpora pedunculata
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