paraphysis

[ puh-raf-uh-sis ]

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noun

, Botany, Mycology.

, plural pa·raph·y·ses [p, uh, -, raf, -, uh, -seez].

one of the erect, sterile filaments often growing among the reproductive organs in many fungi, mosses, and ferns.

paraphysis

/ pəˈræfɪsɪs /

any of numerous sterile cells occurring between the sex organs of mosses and algae and between the spore-producing bodies of basidiomycetous and ascomycetous fungi

paraphysis

/ pə-răf′ĭ-sĭs /

, Plural paraphyses pə-răf′ĭ-sēz′

One of the erect sterile filaments often occurring among the reproductive organs of certain fungi, algae, and mosses.

1855–60; < New Latin < Greek paráphysis literally, a growing beside, by-growth, equivalent to para- para- ¹ + phýsis growth, nature; physic

C19: New Latin from Greek: subsidiary growth, from para- ¹+ phusis growth

Paraphysis, pa-raf′i-sis, n. an erect sterile filament accompanying the sexual organs of some cryptogamous plants:—pl.

The morphological significance of the paraphysis is uncertain.

Paraphysis: the chitinized thickenings or lateral ingrowths, usually situated at the base of the lobes in certain Diaspid genera.

One branched and one unbranched paraphysis of Buellia parasema.

The Paraphysis is a projection from the roof of the primitive fore-brain near its anterior end.

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