Tuesday, 14 February 2012
Title |
Body | ||
|---|---|---|---|
| Mammiform | Shaped like a breast with nipple | ||
| Marginate | (of a swollen stem base) having a well defined upper edge | ||
| Mealy | Smelling or tasting of flour or dough | ||
| Median | (of ring) positioned at mid-height on the stem | ||
| Melanized | To make dark or black | ||
| Merulioid | With pits, or shallow tubes | ||
| Milk | Milky, usually white fluid, exuded by gills of lactarius species when broken or cut | ||
| Moniliform | Having swellings | ||
| Monomitic | Having only one type of hyphae | ||
| Mucronate | With a short, sharp point | ||
| Muriform | Having horizontal and vertical septa | ||
| Mycelium (pl. Mycelia) | Vegetative stage of fungus, comprising thread-like / felt-like mass, from which the fruiting body subsequently arises | ||
| mycology | the study of fungi | ||
| Mycoparasite | A fungus capable of parasitising another fungus | ||
| Mycorrhizal | Symbiotic relationship between a fungus and a plant in which the fungus penetrates the plant and exchanges nutrients with it. Often to the mutual benefit of both fungus and plant | ||
| mycotoxin | poisonous compound produced by a fungus | ||
| mycovirus | a virus which infects fungi | ||
| myxomycetes | saprophytic organisms that form vegetative amoeboid plasmodia and spores |