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🇵🇹Portuguese Source WordCode: PT

himenial

Pronunciation / Transliteration: imenial

🇬🇧 Direct English Meaning:
Hymenial/haɪˈmiːniəl/
adjectiveCEFR C2 (Proficient)Top #45000 frequency
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🇵🇹 Example Sentence in Portuguese:

"O tecido himenial é essencial para a reprodução do fungo."

Comprehensive Definitions & Senses

1 sense
As adjective
  1. 1

    Relating to or consisting of a hymenium, the spore-bearing layer of a fungus or lichen fruit body.

    "The microscopic analysis revealed distinct hymenial characteristics typical of the Agaricales order."
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Linguistic Origin & Historical Etymology

Derived from the New Latin 'hymenium', coined from the Ancient Greek 'hymēn' (membrane) plus the adjectival suffix '-al'. It entered mycological terminology in the 19th century to describe structures pertaining to the spore-bearing tissue layer of fungi.

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