Usually means: Supportive sterile filaments among sporangia.
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  1. paraphysis: Merriam-Webster
  2. paraphysis: Oxford Learner's Dictionaries
  3. paraphysis: American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language
  4. paraphysis: Collins English Dictionary
  5. paraphysis: Vocabulary.com
  6. paraphysis: Wordnik
  7. paraphysis: Wiktionary
  8. paraphysis: Webster's New World College Dictionary, 4th Ed.
  9. paraphysis: Infoplease Dictionary
  10. paraphysis: Dictionary.com
  11. Paraphysis: Online Plain Text English Dictionary
  12. paraphysis: Webster's Revised Unabridged, 1913 Edition
  13. paraphysis: Rhymezone
  14. Paraphysis: AllWords.com Multi-Lingual Dictionary
  15. paraphysis: FreeDictionary.org
  16. paraphysis: Mnemonic Dictionary
  17. paraphysis: TheFreeDictionary.com

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  1. paraphysis: Encyclopedia

Medicine (2 matching dictionaries)
  1. paraphysis: Merriam-Webster Medical Dictionary
  2. online medical dictionary (No longer online)

Science (3 matching dictionaries)
  1. Botanical Terms (No longer online)
  2. Bryological (No longer online)
  3. Flora of New South Wales (No longer online)

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Definitions from Wiktionary (paraphysis)

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

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