How to Use fruiting body in a Sentence

fruiting body

noun
  • Knowledge is the fruiting body of light at the end of traveling through our nights.
    — Donna Kane, Scientific American, 21 June 2022
  • The only part that is eaten is usually the edge of the fruiting body.
    — Bill Heavey, Field & Stream, 11 May 2023
  • Knowledge is the fruiting body of light whose shadows dog us.
    — Donna Kane, Scientific American, 21 June 2022
  • If the mushroom is the fruiting body (think apples or oranges), the mycelium is the rest of the tree: roots, branches, and all.
    — William Ralston, Wired, 26 July 2022
  • The fruiting body of a parasitic fungus erupts from the body of its victim.
    — Jennifer Ouellette, Ars Technica, 19 Aug. 2022
  • When the conditions are just right, the fruiting body, or mushroom, pops up.
    — Arricca Elin Sansone, House Beautiful, 30 July 2023
  • The mushroom is just the fruiting body, similar to an apple on a tree.
    — Corryn Wetzel, Smithsonian Magazine, 2 Nov. 2020
  • By then, the spores attached to the fungus' fruiting body, which has emerged from the ant's head, have almost fully matured.
    — Discover Magazine, 29 June 2010
  • In time fruiting bodies pop out dotting the bread’s surface.
    — Emily Monosson, Time, 11 July 2023
  • Some of these organisms, living as a network of threads hidden in the soil, may not have sent up a fruiting body in years.
    — Rachel Bujalski Veronique Greenwood, New York Times, 11 June 2024
  • The white color of the fruiting body itself darkens upon bruising and with age.
    — Laura Baisas, Popular Science, 31 Oct. 2024
  • Spores from these fungi latch onto and kill their insect or arachnid prey—and then a fruiting body bursts from the corpse to spread more spores.
    — Allison Parshall, Scientific American, 1 Sep. 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
  • This stalk is fruiting body of the fungus, which will produce new spores that rain down onto the unlucky ants below.
    — Sarah Zhang, Discover Magazine, 8 May 2012
  • After 6 to 12 months or so, the fruiting bodies (the mushrooms) begin to appear on the surface of the logs, first as rounded buttons.
    — Rita Pelczar, Better Homes & Gardens, 13 July 2024
  • The mushroom is a fruiting body, full of minuscule reproductive spores that are light enough to float on air.
    — Beth Botts, chicagotribune.com, 18 Oct. 2020
  • Indeed, large numbers of mushrooms—which are the fruiting bodies of certain fungi—are now emerging from the dirt in the Golden State.
    — Sarah Kuta, Smithsonian Magazine, 28 Mar. 2023
  • The leaves affected by scorch are usually on the sunny or windy side of the tree, while leaf blotch affects most leaves with tiny black fruiting bodies present on the lesions.
    — Tim Johnson, Chicago Tribune, 3 Nov. 2024
  • Like many fungi, they’re composed of a visible fruiting body (the mushroom itself) and the mycelium–the bottom structure that looks like roots.
    — Laura Baisas, Popular Science, 13 Feb. 2023
  • The initial more brightly colored mass will eventually turn to a more of a brown, leathery mass with crusty-looking fruiting bodies that are filled with spores.
    — Tim Johnson, Chicago Tribune, 3 Sep. 2023
  • For example, some brands boast that their mushroom extracts came from the fruiting bodies of the fungi, rather than harvesting less-mature spores.
    — Adam Campbell-Schmitt, Bon Appétit, 8 Jan. 2025
  • Both the fruiting body and mycelium have compounds with potential health benefits.
    — Laura Baisas, Popular Science, 13 Feb. 2023
  • Technically not mushrooms, which have a cap and stalk, the fruiting bodies are blob- to cup-shaped, while the fungus itself lives hidden underground.
    — The Editors, JSTOR Daily, 22 May 2024
  • The fungal fruiting bodies show up more easily after rain.
    — Tim Johnson, Chicago Tribune, 19 Aug. 2023
  • As a Chinese immigrant, my body is seen as a fruiting body in a sinister yellow fungal network, grown too fast and too powerful, primed to release spores of disease across the world.
    — Zoe Yang, Bon Appétit, 6 Feb. 2020
  • This cohort wants the FDA to label mushroom products made with fruiting bodies differently than those made with mycelium and substrate.
    — Robert Johnson, Rolling Stone, 26 Oct. 2023
  • Though guttation is a common occurrence on these fruiting bodies, the bright red droplets eventually dry up and turn more brown colored.
    — Laura Baisas, Popular Science, 31 Oct. 2024
  • The horse chestnut leaf blotch pathogen overwinters as fruiting bodies in leaves infected during the previous season.
    — Tim Johnson, Chicago Tribune, 3 Nov. 2024
  • These invade an insect, replacing its tissue and organs with their mycelia (a mass of thread-like hyphae that absorb nutrients from the environment) and stroma (a stalk-like fruiting body).
    — Discover Magazine, 29 June 2010
  • Invigorated by the damp, fungi living quietly in the soil sprout fruiting bodies.
    — Rachel Bujalski Veronique Greenwood, New York Times, 11 June 2024

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