Definition of Hymenial

1. Adjective. (mycology) Of or pertaining to the hymenium of a fungus. ¹

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Definition of Hymenial

1. hymenium [adj] - See also: hymenium

Lexicographical Neighbors of Hymenial

hymar
hymecromone
hymen bifenestratus
hymen sculptatus
hymen subseptus
hymenal
hymenally challenged
hymeneal
hymeneally
hymeneals
hymenean
hymenectomy
hymenia
hymenial (current term)
hymenial cystidium
hymeniderm
hymeniderms
hymeniform
hymenitis
hymenium
hymeniums
hymenless
hymenlike
hymenoid
hymenolepiasis
hymenolepidid
hymenolepis
hymenology

Literary usage of Hymenial

Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:

1. The Universalist Manual: Or Book of Prayers and Other Religious Exercises by Menzies Rayner (1839)
"... sounds seraphic ring; Lend, lend your wings ! I mount! I fly ! O grave ! where is thy victory 1 O death! where is thy sting 1 [Pope. hymenial. HYMN 99. ..."

2. The Journal of Economic Biology by Walter Edward Collinge, A. H. Reginald Buller, George Herbert Carpenter, Robert Newstead, Arthur Everett Shipley (1906)
"whilst the hymenial tubes are vertical.1 By a simple experiment I have been able to prove that the pileus is dia-geotropic, and the tubes positively ..."

3. Handbook of Practical Botany for the Botanical Laboratory and Private Student by Eduard Strasburger (1889)
"The contents of the spores, paraphyses, sub-hymenial tissue, ... The -walls of the hymenial elements are formed of a special modification of cellulose, ..."

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