mycelium
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noun
- The vegetative part of any fungus, consisting of a mass of branching, threadlike hyphae, often underground.
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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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