Usage examples (22)

• Every mushroom has a spore-bearing layer of cells, which is called the hymenium.
• The substance proceeding from and of like nature with the part that bears the hymenium -- the framework of the gills.
• The cap of a basidiomycete, an expanded structure at the top of the stipe that bears the hymenium (gills, etc.) on its undersurface.
• This hymenium is composed of a number of swollen, club-shaped cells, called basidia, and close to them, side by side, are sterile, elongated cells, named paraphyses.