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What does hypha mean?

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Noun
  1. (mycology) Any of the long, threadlike filaments that form the mycelium of a fungus.
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When the hypha of a uredine attacks a cell it is unable to perforate it with its whole diameter.
If the hypha is the morphological test of a fungus, then it is plain that the slime-moulds are not fungi.
In this process, a bud develops on the surface of either the yeast cell or the hypha, with the cytoplasm of the bud being continuous with that of the parent cell.
Candida albicans has no extracorporeal life cycle and grows as both blastospores and hypha within the body.
Easily distinguishable from all similar moulds by the absence of mycelium or of anything like a hypha.
One hundred intersections were investigated out of a subsample of root pieces of one plant and the presence of at least one mycorrhizal hypha was counted as infection.

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