mycelial
Americanadjective
Example Sentences
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The root-like fruiting bodies of mushrooms, also known as mycelial fibers, have shown promising results as the new age, eco-friendly material for a wide range of consumer and industrial applications.
From Science Daily • Jan. 8, 2024
She expounds on the amazing fact of mycelial networks, the great web they build in the soil.
From Los Angeles Times • May 29, 2023
What's more, the mushrooms seemed to transfer this energy underground through mycelial networks to its neighbors, which could be analogous to a sort of communication.
From Salon • May 9, 2023
In a few forests, researchers have traced fungi from the roots of one tree to those of others, suggesting that mycelial threads could be providing conduits between trees.
From New York Times • Nov. 7, 2022
In soft fungi the mycelial threads are more loosely woven and have thin walls with fewer partitions.
From The Mushroom, Edible and Otherwise Its Habitat and its Time of Growth by Hard, Miron Elisha
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