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pa•raph•y•sis
(pə raf′ə sis),USA pronunciation n., pl. -ses (-sēz′).USA pronunciation [Bot., Mycol.]
pa•raph′y•sate, adj.
- Botany, Fungione of the erect, sterile filaments often growing among the reproductive organs in many fungi, mosses, and ferns.
- Greek paráphysis literally, a growing beside, by-growth, equivalent. to para- para-1 + phýsis growth, nature; see physic
- Neo-Latin
- 1855–60
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