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Webster 1913 Edition

Mycelium

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My-ce′li-um

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Noun.

[NL., fr. Gr.

μύκησ

a mushroom.]

(Bot.)

The white threads or filamentous growth from which a mushroom or fungus is developed; the so-called mushroom spawn.

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My-ce′li-al

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Adj.