hypha

English

Etymology

From New Latin hypha, from Ancient Greek ὑφή (huphḗ, “web”).

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˈhaɪfə/
• Homophone: Haifa

Noun

hypha (plural hyphae)

1. (mycology) Any of the long, threadlike filaments that form the mycelium of a fungus.
   • 2018, Richard Powers, The Overstory, Vintage (2019), page 272:

     She lays out how fungal hyphae—countless miles of filaments folded up in every spoon of soil—coax open tree roots and tap into them.

Derived terms

• hyphal
• hyphoid
• pseudohypha

Translations

filament that forms the mycelium of a fungus

• Basque: hifa
• Catalan: hifa (ca) f
• Danish: please add this translation if you can
• Dutch: schimmeldraad m, zwamdraad m, hyfe (nl) m or f
• Esperanto: hifo
• Finnish: sienirihma (fi)
• French: hyphe (fr) f
• Galician: hifa f
• German: Hyphe f
• Hungarian: hifa (hu) sg, gombafonal (hu), gombafonalak pl
• Indonesian: hifa (id), benang jamur (literally “mushroom string”)
• Italian: ifa (it) f
• Maori: torohihi
• Norwegian: hyfe m
• Occitan: ifa f
• Persian: نَخینه (fa)
• Polish: strzępka f
• Portuguese: hifa (pt) f
• Romanian: hifă (ro) f
• Spanish: hifa f
• Swedish: hyf c
• Tagalog: hiblay
• Ukrainian: гіф m (hif)