noun. Any of the threadlike filaments forming the mycelium of a fungus.

noun. Any of the threadlike filaments produced by certain bacteria.

noun. The element of a thallus in Fungi; a cylindric threadlike branched body consisting of a membrane inclosing protoplasm, developing by apical growth, and usually becoming transversely septate as it develops, Göbel.

noun. any of the threadlike filaments forming the mycelium of a fungus. See hyphae.

noun. Any of the long, threadlike filaments that form the mycelium of a fungus.

noun. any of the threadlike filaments forming the mycelium of a fungus

"Also in the common gray mould of infusions and preserves, Penicillium, by a process which is perhaps intermediate between budding and cell-division, a cell at the end of a hypha constricts itself in several places, and the constricted portions become separate as _conidiospores_."

woronin's hypha  

hyphae