Mycelium

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From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48 [gcide]:

  Mycelium \My*ce"li*um\, n. [NL., fr. Gr. my`khs a mushroom.]
     (Bot.)
     The white threads or filamentous growth from which a mushroom
     or fungus is developed; the so-called mushroom spawn. --
     {My*ce"li*al}, a.
     [1913 Webster]



From WordNet (r) 2.0 [wn]:

  mycelium
       n : the vegetative part of a fungus consisting of a mass of
           branching threadlike hyphae
       [also: {mycelia} (pl)]