mycelium

See also: mycélium

English

Etymology

From New Latin mycelium; synchronically, myc- +‎ -el- +‎ -ium, where the infix -el- is of unknown origin, perhaps introduced from a rebracketing of epithelium.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /maɪˈsi.li.əm/

• Audio (Southern England):

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• Rhymes: -iːliəm

Noun

mycelium (countable and uncountable, plural mycelia)

1. The vegetative part of any fungus, consisting of a mass of branching, threadlike hyphae, often underground.

Derived terms

• mycelial
• mycelian
• myceliogenic
• mycelioid
• myceloid
• promycelium
• pseudomycelium

Related terms

• mycoid
• mycology
• mycophage
• mycophile

Translations

vegetative part of a fungus

• Catalan: miceli m
• Chinese:

  Mandarin: 菌絲 / 菌丝 (zh) (jūnsī), 菌根 (zh)

• Czech: podhoubí (cs) n, mycelium n
• Esperanto: micelio
• Estonian: niidistik, seeneniidistik, mütseel
• Finnish: sienirihmasto (fi)
• French: mycélium (fr) m
• German: Myzel (de) n, Myzelium (de) n
• Hebrew: תַּפְטִיר (he) m (taftír)
• Hungarian: micélium (hu), gombafonalak/hifák összessége/szövedéke/hálózata, szövedék (hu), gombaszövedék, tenyésztest
• Icelandic: mýsli n
• Irish: mícéiliam m
• Italian: micelio
• Latvian: sēņotne f, micēlijs m
• Lithuanian: grybiena f
• Norwegian:

  Bokmål: mycel n

  Nynorsk: mycel n

• Occitan: micèli m
• Polish: grzybnia (pl) f
• Portuguese: micélio (pt) m
• Romanian: miceliu (ro) n
• Russian: мице́лий (ru) m (micélij), грибни́ца (ru) f (gribníca)
• Slovene: micelij m, podgobje n
• Spanish: micelio m
• Swedish: mycel (sv) n
• Tagalog: sanghiblayan
• Ukrainian: грибни́ця f (hrybnýcja), міце́лій m (micélij)

Czech

Etymology

Borrowed from New Latin mycelium.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): [ˈmɪt͡sɛlɪjum]

Noun

mycelium n

1. mycelium

   Synonym: podhoubí

Declension

Declension of mycelium (semisoft neuter foreign)

	singular	plural
nominative	mycelium	mycelia
genitive	mycelia	mycelií
dative	myceliu	myceliím
accusative	mycelium	mycelia
vocative	mycelium	mycelia
locative	myceliu	myceliích
instrumental	myceliem	mycelii

Further reading

• “mycelium”, in Příruční slovník jazyka českého (in Czech), 1935–1957
• “mycelium”, in Slovník spisovného jazyka českého (in Czech), 1960–1971, 1989
• “mycelium”, in Internetová jazyková příručka (in Czech), 2008–2026

Dutch

Etymology

Borrowed from New Latin mycelium.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /miˈseː.li.ʏm/

• Audio:

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• Hyphenation: my‧ce‧li‧um

Noun

mycelium n (plural mycelia, no diminutive)

1. mycelium

Norwegian Bokmål

Noun

mycelium n (definite singular myceliet, indefinite plural mycelier, definite plural mycelia or myceliene)

1. form removed with the spelling reform of 2005; superseded by mycel

Norwegian Nynorsk

Noun

mycelium n (definite singular myceliet, indefinite plural mycelium, definite plural mycelia)

1. (pre-2005) alternative form of mycel