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How to use hypha in a sentence

10 example sentences · noun

Hypha means any of the long, threadlike filaments that form the mycelium of a fungus. Example: “She lays out how fungal hyphae—countless miles of filaments folded up in every spoon of soil—coax open tree roots and tap into them.”

Examples of hypha by meaning

nounAny of the long, threadlike filaments that form the mycelium of a fungus.

  • She lays out how fungal hyphae—countless miles of filaments folded up in every spoon of soil—coax open tree roots and tap into them.2018, Richard Powers, The Overstory, Vintage (2019), page 272

More sentences with hypha

  • Note how the microstromatolite and surrounding basalt are overgrown by the biofilm and how hyphae protrude.2015 October 22, “A Fungal-Prokaryotic Consortium at the Basalt-Zeolite Interface in Subseafloor Igneous Crust”, in PLOS ONE, →DOI. From the entry microstromatolite
  • The microstromatolites and the surrounding basalt were overlaid by fungal cells and hyphae.2015 October 22, “A Fungal-Prokaryotic Consortium at the Basalt-Zeolite Interface in Subseafloor Igneous Crust”, in PLOS ONE, →DOI. From the entry microstromatolites
  • The pillar hyphae seemed to contribute to their own stromatization.1963, Jack D. Rogers, Hypoxylon Canker of Aspen: Screening for Disease Resistance. From the entry stromatization
  • Other evidence suggests the existence of “wood-wide webs” in which forest trees are tied together into large networks by fungal hyphae connecting their roots.2022, Steve Trudell, Mushrooms of the Pacific Northwest. From the entry wood-wide web
  • Deletion of Smkin3 led to fewer septa and increased protoplast regeneration and aerial hyphae formation, whereas deletion of Smkin24 caused hyperseptation and sterility.2015 September 30, “Germinal Center Kinases SmKIN3 and SmKIN24 Are Associated with the Sordaria macrospora Striatin-Interacting…. From the entry hyperseptation
  • In parasitic species the hyphae spread in the intercellular spaces of the host and produce asexual fruitification, and acervulus, below the epidermis.2001, S.M. Reddy, University Botany I : (Algae, Fungi, Bryophyta And Pteridophyta) Volume 1, →ISBN. From the entry fruitification
  • Within eukaryotic cells, distant branches of the tree of life entwine and melt into an inseparable new lineage; they fuse, or anastomose, as fungal hyphae do.2020, Merlin Sheldrake, Entangled Life, page 92. From the entry anastomose
  • A characteristic feature here is the structure of the fruit-body context containing - besides long, cylindrical hyphae - groups of globular cells (spherocysts) nidulariaceously arranged in its tissue.2005, S. R. Mishra, Morphology of Fungi, page 47. From the entry spherocyst
  • Aerial hyphae: (a) as in advancing zone but with slightly thickened walls; (b) hyaline to pale brownish, thick walled, aseptate, (1-) 1.5-2 (-3) μ wide, skeletoid, rarely branched.1980, Paul Holliday, Fungus Diseases of Tropical Crops, →ISBN, page 266. From the entry skeletoid

Meaning of hypha

  1. noun Any of the long, threadlike filaments that form the mycelium of a fungus.

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Questions about hypha in a sentence

How do you use hypha in a sentence?
Hypha is used as a noun. For example: “She lays out how fungal hyphae—countless miles of filaments folded up in every spoon of soil—coax open tree roots and tap into them.”
What is a short sentence with hypha?
“The pillar hyphae seemed to contribute to their own stromatization.”
What does hypha mean?
Hypha means any of the long, threadlike filaments that form the mycelium of a fungus.

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