mycelium

Etymology

Scientific Latin, from Ancient Greek μύκης (múkēs, “mushroom”) + -ium (with inserted -l- perhaps after e.g. epithelium).

noun

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

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