HYPHA

Pronunciation (US): (GB):

Irregular inflected form: hyphae

Meaning:

Any of the threadlike filaments forming the mycelium of a fungus

Classified under:

Nouns denoting plants

Hypernyms ("hypha" is a kind of...):

fibril; filament; strand (a very slender natural or synthetic fiber)

Hyponyms (each of the following is a kind of "hypha"):

conidiophore (a specialized fungal hypha that produces conidia)

rhizomorph (a dense mass of hyphae forming a root-like structure characteristic of many fungi)

Holonyms ("hypha" is a part of...):

mycelium (the vegetative part of a fungus consisting of a mass of branching threadlike hyphae)