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English
Etymology
From hyphae + -like.
Adjective
hyphaelike (comparative more hyphaelike, superlative most hyphaelike)
- (mycology) Resembling hyphae.
1965, C. G. Ainsworth, Frederick K Sparrow, Alfred S. Sussman, editors, The Fungi: An Advanced Treatise, volume IVB (A Taxonomic Review with Keys: Basidomycetes and Lower Fungi), New York, N.Y., London: Academic Press, →ISBN, page 329:The three genera included by Donk unaccounted for elsewhere are those in which the fruitbody is strictly effused: Tomentella (including Pseudotomentella and Tomentellastrum) and Kneiffiella P. Karst. (nymenophore smooth or warty, K. being distinguished from T. by the protruding hyphaelike cystidia) and Caldesiella (hymenophore has teeth with sterile tips).