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PARAPHYSIS
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Irregular inflected form: paraphyses
I. (noun)
Sense 1
Meaning:
A sterile simple or branched filament or hair borne among sporangia; may be pointed or clubbed
Classified under:
Hypernyms ("paraphysis" is a kind of...):
fibril; filament; strand (a very slender natural or synthetic fiber)