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# mycelium

«mycelium» in Mova's school dictionary: **the mass of thin white threads of a fungus that grows…** — its meaning for a pupil, its sense in the lessons and examples.

### part of speech

noun (mycelium, mycelia)

### meaning for a pupil

Mycelium is the mass of thin white threads of a fungus that grows underground or inside rotting wood; mushrooms grow out of it. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/M/mycelium/#m1)

### sense in the lessons

Met in science lessons on fungi, decomposers and soil. Mycelium links tree roots and helps plants share food, sometimes called the «wood wide web».

### examples

- Mushrooms grow from mycelium under the ground. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/M/mycelium/#x1)
- The mycelium spread through the rotting log. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/M/mycelium/#x2)
- Mycelium looks like white cotton threads. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/M/mycelium/#x3)
- Fungi break down dead leaves with their mycelium. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/M/mycelium/#x4)
- Some trees swap food through mycelium in the soil. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/M/mycelium/#x5)
- A single mycelium can be huge. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/M/mycelium/#x6)

### note

Plural: mycelia. Say «my-SEE-lee-um». The mushroom is only a small part of the fungus; most of it is the mycelium.

### Trees and pragmatics

[Every meaning and example of «mycelium» parsed by Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/M/mycelium/), each sentence with its dependency tree and frames.