Word Pronunciation & Dictionary

mushroom body

Word Rarity Rare

Frequency: Zipf frequency 3.62 in modern English

Syllables: mush-room -body
IPA

25

Scrabble Score

12

Letters

3

Syllables

9

Unique Chars

Meaning

noun

Either of a pair of structures in the brains of insects and some other arthropods thought to be involved in learning and memory.

Example Sentences

"In fruit flies the cyclic AMP system seems to be especially active in brain regions called mushroom bodies, toadstool-shaped extrusions of neurons in the fruit fly brain."

Etymology

From mushroom + body, after German pilzhutförmiger Körper.

Inflected Forms

mushroom bodies (plural)

Synonyms

corpora pedunculata

Questions

What does mushroom body mean?: Either of a pair of structures in the brains of insects and some other arthropods thought to be involved in learning and memory.
Where does mushroom body come from?: From mushroom + body, after German pilzhutförmiger Körper.

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