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How to use mycelium in a sentence

15 example sentences · noun

Mycelium means the vegetative part of any fungus, consisting of a mass of branching, threadlike hyphae, often underground. Example: “Underused neuronal pathways are pruned back, as are underused patches of mycelium.”

More sentences with mycelium

  • Underused neuronal pathways are pruned back, as are underused patches of mycelium.2020, Merlin Sheldrake, Entangled Life, page 192. From the entry underused
  • The dense meshwork of mycelium can even be used to filter polluted water.2020, Merlin Sheldrake, Entangled Life, page 206. From the entry meshwork
  • Three of the isolates produced chalky white aerial mycelium with straight to flexuous (rectiflexible) spore chains.1992, The Journal of Communicable Diseases, page 39. From the entry rectiflexible
  • But to embed oneself in an irregular and unpredictable food supply as mycelium does, one must be able to shapeshift.2020, Merlin Sheldrake, Entangled Life, page 57. From the entry shapeshift
  • For the Pleurotus mycelium to digest the used cigarette butts it might have to dust off an unused metabolic move.2020, Merlin Sheldrake, Entangled Life, page 203. From the entry dust off
  • In 'mycofiltration', contaminated water is passed through mats of mycelium which filter out heavy metals and break down toxins.2020, Merlin Sheldrake, Entangled Life, page 11. From the entry mycofiltration
  • In 'mycofabrication', building materials and textiles are grown out of mycelium and replace plastics and leather in many applications.2020, Merlin Sheldrake, Entangled Life, page 11. From the entry mycofabrication
  • Asexual reproduction occurs by myceliogenic germination of sclerotia directly resulting in new sclerotia or mycelium that eventually produces sclerotia.2015 September 30, “Genetic Variation of Sclerotinia sclerotiorum from Multiple Crops in the North Central United States”, in PLOS ONE, →DOI. From the entry myceliogenic
  • Later the pods become covered completely with white powdery mass composed of mycelium, oidiophores and oidia of the fungus.2006, A. V. S. S. Sambamurty, A Textbook of Plant Pathology, page 239. From the entry oidium
  • Most of the changes that stimulate fruiting have a negative effect on the vegetative growth of the mycelium.2005, Bram van Nieuwenhuijzen, Small-scale mushroom cultivation, →ISBN, page 12. From the entry fruiting
  • The mycelium was treated with a sterile micropestle or biovortexer (Roth, Karlsruhe, Germany) for about 1 to 2 min.2005 August 1, Gabriele Berg gabriele, Christin Zachow, Jana Lottmann, Monika Götz, Rodrigo Costa, Kornelia Smalla, “Impact of Plant…. From the entry biovortexer
  • The outer wood exposed to the air may become carbonaceous due to the interaction of sclerotic mycelium and the wood.1920, Clarence Ritchie Phipps, Plant Lice Injurious to Apple Orchards. From the entry sclerotic
  • It is considered that the amount of mycelia in T. matsutake shiros is closely related to the amount of emerged T. matsutake fruiting body.2007 September 24, Lu-Min Vaario, “Can we regulate the growth of shiro?”, in Matsutake Workshop, archived from the original on 09 Jun 2022. From the entry shiro
  • Unexpanded basidiocarps (peridia) 1.5-3 x 1-1.5 cm, white, globose, then ovate, splitting irregularly at apex into several lobes, attached by a white, branched, cord-like mycelium.1984, Po Liu, The Gasteromycetes of China, page 41. From the entry pertusate
  • In Chaetomium spirale the cells of the mycelium contain each a single nucleus, the archicarp arises as a coiled branch and divides into four or more uninucleate cells.2010, Helen Gwynne-Vaughan, Fungi: Ascomycetes, Ustilaginales, Uredinales, →ISBN, page 155. From the entry archicarp

Meaning of mycelium

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

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Questions about mycelium in a sentence

How do you use mycelium in a sentence?
Mycelium is used as a noun. For example: “Underused neuronal pathways are pruned back, as are underused patches of mycelium.”
What is a short sentence with mycelium?
“Underused neuronal pathways are pruned back, as are underused patches of mycelium.”
What does mycelium mean?
Mycelium means the vegetative part of any fungus, consisting of a mass of branching, threadlike hyphae, often underground.

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