| | Coenocyte -- Facts, Info, and Encyclopedia article (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-18) |
 | | A coenocyte is a multinucleate ((biology) the basic structural and functional unit of all organisms; cells may exist as independent units of life (as in monads) or may form colonies or tissues as in higher plants and animals) cell. |
 | | Some plant structures, such as (Nutritive tissue surrounding the embryo within seeds of flowering plants) endosperm, are coenocytic as well. |
 | | See also: (Any of the threadlike filaments forming the mycelium of a fungus) hypha. |
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