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- noun Plural form of
mycelium .
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Examples
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With support from NSF, McIntyre and Bayer are developing a new, less energy-intensive method to sterilize their agricultural-waste starter material -- a necessary step for enabling the mushroom fibers, called mycelia, to grow.
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An "expert" told us the mushroom grows from that underground mycelia, which is why I knew it so I could write it in the paragraph above.
magic-city-news.com 2008
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It is older than animals, older than mushrooms, older even than mycelia.
August « 2009 « poetry dispatch & other notes from the underground 2009
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It is older than animals, older than mushrooms, older even than mycelia.
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A lot of it is good, as underground mushroom membranes mycelia learn to absorb and detoxify even ugly wastes and poisons.
Doug Demeo: Love, Nature: A Reunion Doug Demeo 2011
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A lot of it is good, as underground mushroom membranes mycelia learn to absorb and detoxify even ugly wastes and poisons.
Doug Demeo: Love, Nature: A Reunion Doug Demeo 2011
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Although it is not known if this trend also applies to the species diversity of fungal mycelia (the belowground network of fungal filaments or hyphae), it is clear that the amount of fungal hyphae is low in the Arctic [62].
Implications of current species distributions for future biotic change in the Arctic 2009
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In good tempeh, the beans are knit together by a mat of white mycelia.
Fried Tempe 2009
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The mushroom project is still going, albeit slowly, as we are waiting for the mycelia to do their magic within our plastic bags stuffed with pasteurized banana leaves.
Looking ahead Schuyler 2009
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In good tempeh, the beans are knit together by a mat of white mycelia.
Fried Tempe 2009
knitandpurl commented on the word mycelia
"Mii knows the intricate mycelia of relations and events that are expressed in the gestures of the statues, surge into the points of daggers held over the breasts of enemies and the tips of fingers reaching out for conciliation; she knows the thousands of images and stories of the world of statues that have never achieved expression yet pulsate in stiff gestures of the body."
- The Golden Age by Michal Ajvaz, translated by Andrew Oakland, p 245 of the Dalkey Archive paperback
June 16, 2011