hy·po·ge·al

(hī′pə-jē′əl) also hy·po·ge·an (-ən) or hy·po·ge·ous (-əs)

adj.

1. Living or occurring under the earth's surface.

2. Botany Of or relating to seed germination in which the cotyledons remain below the surface of the ground.

[From Latin hypogēus, from Greek hupogeios : hupo-, hypo- + gē, earth.]

hy′po·ge′al·ly adv.

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hypogeous

adjective

Located or operating beneath the earth's surface:

hypogeal, hypogean, subterranean, subterrestrial, underground.

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British truffles: a revision of british hypogeous fungi.

Fungos ectomicorrizicos em plantacoes de nogueira-peca e o potencial da truficultura no Brasil/Ectomycorrhizal fungi in pecan orchards and the potential of truffle cultivation in Brazil

Cromack K Jr, Sollins P, Graustein WC, Speidel K, Todd AW, Spycher G, Li CY, Todd RL (1979) Calcium oxalate accumulation and soil weathering in mats of the hypogeous fungus Hysterangium crassum.

Calcium oxalate in soils, its origins and fate - a review

Thus, there should be tangible long-term consequences due to volcanic ash on the surviving biota after ash fall out, especially in cases where adults of a species are epigeous and larvae hypogeous, showing vulnerability to ash during both phases of the insect life cycle.

Effects of dietary intake of volcanic ash from Puyehue Cordon Caulle on Tenebrio molitor (Coleoptera: Tenebrionidae) larvae under laboratory conditions

We also fixed 3 microscope slides from a random sample of 45 scats to identify the presence of hypogeous fungi.

FOOD HABITS OF PACIFIC MARTEN FROM SCATS IN SOUTH-CENTRAL OREGON

In fact, about 83-85 taxa of hypogeous and semi-hypogeous fungi, including 29Tuber entities were discovered in its territory in the last 14 years (Rana et al., 2008, 2012, 2015 and unpublished data).

MORPHOLOGICAL, PHYSICO-CHEMICAL AND MOLECULAR INVESTIGATIONS ON TUBER BELLONAE FROM BASILICATA-ITALY

Background and Aims: Delastria rosea is a hypogeous fungus characterized by its rose gleba and globose ascospores with reticulated ornamentation.

Primer reporte y distribucion de Delastria rosea (Pezizales: Incertae sedis) en Mexico /New record and distribution of Delastria rosea (Pezizales: Incertae sedis) in Mexico

Fungi or also known as "mushroom" is defined as "macrofungus" with a distinctive fruiting body, it can be hypogeous or epigeous, large enough to be seen by the naked eye and usually pick up by hands.

Molecular identification and phylogeny of some wild microscopic fungi from selected areas of Jaen, Nueva Ecija, Philippines

Unexpanded basidiomata hypogeous; exoperidium encrusted with debris 3 2.

Nuevos registros de Geastraceae (Basidiomycota, Phallomycetidae) en remanentes y relictos de Mata Atlantica del nordeste de Brasil

6).Basidioma scattered on soil at first hypogeous and ovate attached with a basal mycelium to the substratum expanded on maturity and superficial up to 4 cm across Exoperidium splitting from middle to the tip into 10 nonhygroscopic rays with acute apices up to 2 cm in lengthbending downward upper surface pinkish tan to pale yellowish to camel brown occasionally cracking.

Gasteroid Mycota of District Mansehra Khyber Pakhtunkhwa Pakistan

Cazares, "Habitat associations of hypogeous fungi in the southern appalachians: implications for the endangered northern flying squirrel (Glaucomys sabrinus coloratus)," The American Midland Naturalist, vol.

Developing a topographic model to predict the northern hardwood forest type within Carolina northern flying squirrel (Glaucomys sabrinus coloratus) recovery areas of the southern Appalachians