How to Use mycelium in a Sentence

mycelium

noun
  • This thing will crush rocks all day long and could not crush mycelium.
    — Nick Hilden, Scientific American, 3 Aug. 2021
  • From the fruiting body or mycelium?
    — Samantha Agate, Charlotte Observer, 25 June 2026
  • Reishi is made of mycelium, which is the root structure of mushrooms.
    — Sofia Celeste, WWD, 3 Sep. 2019
  • Its evolved form, Trevenant, controls trees through its mycelium-like roots.
    — Jhaan Elker, Washington Post, 28 Oct. 2022
  • Pattie shared some facts and feelings about mycelium.
    — Popular Science Team, Popular Science, 17 June 2026
  • Here rose swamps and ponds, enormous dark lakes and silver rivers that branched and ran like strands of mycelium.
    — Literary Hub, 15 Dec. 2025
  • The mycelium is then compressed into bricks, which can be used to build houses.
    — Lucas Daprile, cleveland, 12 July 2022
  • These hyphae threads are connected through a web called a mycelium.
    — David Grossman, Popular Mechanics, 19 Oct. 2018
  • The bar stools are made from mycelium, purpose-grown in molds then baked until solid.
    — Emily Matchar, Smithsonian Magazine, 16 Mar. 2020
  • Consuming a large piece of wood can be the work of years for a mass of fungal fibers, called a mycelium.
    — Beth Botts, chicagotribune.com, 18 Oct. 2020
  • But who knew that much of the mystery behind mushrooms stems from the magic of mycelium?
    — Los Angeles Times, 1 Feb. 2023
  • Fungi are made of mycelium, a network of fine white filaments akin to the roots of a plant.
    — Corryn Wetzel, Smithsonian Magazine, 2 Nov. 2020
  • Stirring in more wood chips will keep the mycelium growing for future harvests.
    — Sunset, 22 Jan. 2018
  • The clumps were mycelium, the root-like threads of fungi that grow underground and give rise to mushrooms.
    — Gabe Allen, Discover Magazine, 28 Nov. 2023
  • So mycelium is the organism that mushrooms grow from and the substrate is their food and habitat.
    — Bon Appétit, 9 Oct. 2024
  • The key decor piece of the hotel, meanwhile, is a mycelium leather art piece above the bar, made by Mycoworks.
    — Alyssa Hardy, Vogue, 26 Nov. 2024
  • Here, the cloud of mycelium will bloom into the iconic shapes that most people recognize.
    — Jamie Clarkson, The Enquirer, 26 June 2021
  • Sometimes the fungus produces a mat of mycelium in thick layers of compost.
    — Tom MacCubbin, orlandosentinel.com, 22 Aug. 2020
  • The fabric is derived from mycelium—the threadlike roots that connect vast fungal blooms.
    — Eamon Barrett, Fortune, 8 Oct. 2020
  • The logs are cut fresh, aged a few weeks, and then implanted with wooden dowels that have been covered in mycelium.
    — Cathy Jakicic, Milwaukee Journal Sentinel, 9 May 2022
  • When the leaves are wet or humidity is high, small amounts of gray cottony growth, called mycelium, may appear.
    — Mary Marlowe Leverette, Southern Living, 9 May 2026
  • Their true heft is hidden below the surface, where a massive network of root-like stalks of mycelium branch out for miles.
    — Jessica Boddy, Popular Science, 22 Apr. 2020
  • In fact, they were made of compressed wood chips bound with a mixture of limestone and cement or with a fungus called mycelium.
    — Saima May Sidik, Smithsonian Magazine, 22 Jan. 2024
  • Then, the mycelium creates a matrix that resembles the structure of meat.
    — Lana Bandoim, Forbes, 29 June 2021
  • The hyphae combine to create mycelium, which then sprout the fruiting mushrooms.
    — Corryn Wetzel, Smithsonian Magazine, 2 Nov. 2020
  • The fungus causes a mycelium, the thread- and root-like portion of a mushroom, to grow over the soy, forming a firm cake.
    — Becky Krystal, Washington Post, 27 Feb. 2023
  • Keep in mind that a mushroom is merely the fruiting body of a fungus that most of the time lives as fine white filaments of mycelium.
    — Ellen Nibali, baltimoresun.com, 31 Dec. 2020
  • The Living Cocoon is slow to make, because it must be grown from living mycelium and then dried.
    — Caroline Delbert, Popular Mechanics, 21 Sep. 2020
  • The [meat substitutes] that come from fungi and mycelium are more interesting to me.
    — Cassie Werber, Quartz, 11 Aug. 2022
  • Fungi, and their network of mycelium, are even more difficult to put in perspective.
    — The Editors, JSTOR Daily, 16 Apr. 2025

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