Množina: mycelia
ETYM New Lat., from Greek mykes a mushroom.
The vegetative part of a fungus consisting of a mass of branching threadlike hyphae.
Web of spore-bearing filaments of fungi; “spawn”.
Interwoven mass of threadlike filaments or hyphae, forming the main body of most fungi. The reproductive structures, or “fruiting bodies”, grow from the mycelium.