paraphysis

English

Etymology

para- +‎ -physis

Noun

paraphysis (plural paraphyses)

1. (botany) A minute jointed filament growing among the archegonia and antheridia of mosses, or with the spore cases, etc., of other flowerless plants.
2. (mycology) A type of sterile cell amongst the spore-bearing asci.
3. (anatomy) A derivative of the roof-plate of the telencephalon.

Derived terms

• paraphysate
• paraphysoid
• pseudoparaphysis

Part or all of this entry has been imported from the 1913 edition of Webster’s Dictionary, which is now free of copyright and hence in the public domain. The imported definitions may be significantly out of date, and any more recent senses may be completely missing.
(See the entry for “paraphysis”, in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: G. & C. Merriam, 1913, →OCLC.)