"mycelium" meaning in English

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Noun

IPA: /maɪˈsi.li.əm/ Forms: mycelia [plural]
Etymology: Scientific Latin, from Ancient Greek μύκης (múkēs, “mushroom”) + -ium (with inserted -l- perhaps after e.g. epithelium). Etymology templates: {{uder|en|grc|μύκης||mushroom}} Ancient Greek μύκης (múkēs, “mushroom”), {{suffix|en||ium}} + -ium Head templates: {{en-noun|mycelia}} mycelium (plural mycelia)
  1. The vegetative part of any fungus, consisting of a mass of branching, threadlike hyphae, often underground. Wikipedia link: mycelium Categories (lifeform): Fungi Derived forms: mycelial, mycelian, myceliogenic, mycelioid, myceloid Translations (vegetative part of a fungus): miceli [masculine] (Catalan), 菌絲 (Chinese Mandarin), 菌丝 (jūnsī) (Chinese Mandarin), 菌根 (Chinese Mandarin), podhoubí [neuter] (Czech), mycelium [neuter] (Czech), micelio (Esperanto), niidistik (Estonian), seeneniidistik (Estonian), mütseel (Estonian), sienirihmasto (Finnish), mycélium [masculine] (French), Myzel [neuter] (German), Myzelium [neuter] (German), micélium (Hungarian), szövedék (Hungarian), gombaszövedék (Hungarian), tenyésztest (Hungarian), mýsli [neuter] (Icelandic), mícéiliam [masculine] (Irish), micelio (Italian), sēņotne [feminine] (Latvian), micēlijs [masculine] (Latvian), grybiena [feminine] (Lithuanian), mycel [neuter] (Norwegian Bokmål), mycel [neuter] (Norwegian Nynorsk), micèli [masculine] (Occitan), grzybnia [feminine] (Polish), micélio [masculine] (Portuguese), miceliu [neuter] (Romanian), мице́лий (micélij) [masculine] (Russian), micelij [masculine] (Slovene), podgobje [neuter] (Slovene), micelio [masculine] (Spanish), mycel [neuter] (Swedish), sanghiblayan (Tagalog)

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If you use this data in academic research, please cite Tatu Ylonen: Wiktextract: Wiktionary as Machine-Readable Structured Data, Proceedings of the 13th Conference on Language Resources and Evaluation (LREC), pp. 1317-1325, Marseille, 20-25 June 2022. Linking to the relevant page(s) under https://kaikki.org would also be greatly appreciated.