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mushroom bodies

mushroom bodies is the plural of mushroom body.

Meaning of mushroom body

Noun

mushroom body (plural mushroom bodies)

  1. Either of a pair of structures in the brains of insects and some other arthropods thought to be involved in learning and memory.
    • In fruit flies the cyclic AMP system seems to be especially active in brain regions called mushroom bodies, toadstool-shaped extrusions of neurons in the fruit fly brain.1999, Matt Ridley, Genome, Harper Perennial, published 2004, page 226
    Synonyms:
    corpora pedunculata

Questions about mushroom bodies

What is mushroom bodies the plural of?
Mushroom bodies is the plural of mushroom body.

Words near mushroom bodies in the dictionary

  1. mushrikun
  2. mushroo
  3. mushroom
  4. mushroom anchor
  5. mushroom anchors
  6. mushroom bodies
  7. mushroom body
  8. mushroom brush
  9. mushroom brushes
  10. mushroom cloud
  11. mushroom clouds

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