— paraphysate , adj.
/peuh raf"euh sis/ , n. , pl. paraphyses /-seez'/ . Bot., Mycol.
one of the erect, sterile filaments often growing among the reproductive organs in many fungi, mosses, and ferns.
[ 1855-60; paráphysis lit., a growing beside, by-growth, equiv. to para- PARA- 1 + phýsis growth, nature; see PHYSIC ]