How to Use fruiting body in a Sentence

fruiting body

noun

• From the fruiting body or mycelium?
  — Samantha Agate, Charlotte Observer, 25 June 2026
• Knowledge is the fruiting body of light whose shadows dog us.
  — Donna Kane, Scientific American, 21 June 2022
• Knowledge is the fruiting body of light at the end of traveling through our nights.
  — Donna Kane, Scientific American, 21 June 2022
• When the conditions are just right, the fruiting body, or mushroom, pops up.
  — Arricca Elin Sansone, House Beautiful, 30 July 2023
• The only part that is eaten is usually the edge of the fruiting body.
  — Bill Heavey, Field & Stream, 11 May 2023
• The mushroom is just the fruiting body, similar to an apple on a tree.
  — Corryn Wetzel, Smithsonian Magazine, 2 Nov. 2020
• The fruiting body of a parasitic fungus erupts from the body of its victim.
  — Jennifer Ouellette, Ars Technica, 19 Aug. 2022
• The white color of the fruiting body itself darkens upon bruising and with age.
  — Laura Baisas, Popular Science, 31 Oct. 2024
• 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
• 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
• 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
• 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
• 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
• 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
• Both the fruiting body and mycelium have compounds with potential health benefits.
  — Laura Baisas, Popular Science, 13 Feb. 2023
• These varieties produce drab-looking but tasty fruiting bodies called truffles, which mammals like dogs or boars will find by smell—then dig up and eat.
  — Sarah Kuta, Smithsonian Magazine, 22 Jan. 2025
• The mycelium of the lion’s mane mushroom can live for many years on a tree, periodically sending out its fruiting body.
  — Encyclopedia Britannica, 27 Mar. 2026
• 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
• 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
• 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
• 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
• Instead of releasing spores from gills or pores, these mushrooms have hanging spines—soft, icicle-like structures that dangle from their fruiting bodies.
  — Scott Travers, Forbes, 26 Feb. 2025
• The horse chestnut leaf blotch pathogen overwinters as fruiting bodies in leaves infected during the previous season.
  — Tim Johnson, Chicago Tribune, 3 Nov. 2024
• 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
• Invigorated by the damp, fungi living quietly in the soil sprout fruiting bodies.
  — Rachel Bujalski Veronique Greenwood, New York Times, 11 June 2024
• 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
• 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
• Western science has identified many health benefits associated with both the mycelium and the fruiting body of this mushroom.
  — Encyclopedia Britannica, 27 Mar. 2026
• Sometimes delicious, sometimes deadly, sometimes trippy, mushrooms are the fruiting bodies of certain types of fungi.
  — Popsci Staff, Popular Science, 8 May 2024
• But these animals are not interested in eating the vividly colored native fungal fruiting bodies—they’d rather eat smelly, non-native truffles.
  — Sarah Kuta, Smithsonian Magazine, 22 Jan. 2025