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hyphaelike

hyphaelike adjective: resembling hyphae.

Adjective

hyphaelike (comparative more hyphaelike, superlative most hyphaelike)

  1. Resembling hyphae.
    • The three genera included by Donk unaccounted for elsewhere are those in which the fruitbody is strictly effused: Tomentella (including Pseudotomentella and Tomentellastrum) and Kneiffiella P. Karst. (nymenophore smooth or warty, K. being distinguished from T. by the protruding hyphaelike cystidia)...1965, C. G. Ainsworth, Frederick K[roeber] Sparrow, Alfred S. Sussman, editors, The Fungi: An Advanced Treatise, volume IVB (A Taxonomic Review with Keys: Basidomycetes and Lower Fungi), New York...

Forms of hyphaelike

comparativemore hyphaelike
superlativemost hyphaelike

Origin of hyphaelike

From hyphae + -like.

Questions about hyphaelike

What does hyphaelike mean?
Hyphaelike means resembling hyphae.
What part of speech is hyphaelike?
Hyphaelike is an adjective.

Words near hyphaelike in the dictionary

  1. hypex
  2. hypexes
  3. hypey
  4. hypha
  5. hyphae
  6. hyphaelike
  7. hyphaema
  8. hyphaemas
  9. hyphaemata
  10. hyphaemia
  11. hyphaemias

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