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from The Century Dictionary.

  • noun In cryptogamic botany, a tubular or thread- like growth first formed by a spore in germination, which by continued development and cell-division in one or more directions becomes the thallus. In fungi the germ-tube may develop into either the ordinary mycelium or a promycelium.

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