Talk:tubercle

RFV
Rfv-sense: mycology: "A mass of hyphae from which a mushroom is produced." This appears to originate from an author of Wikipedia. Google searches with combinations [mushroom, tubercle] and [mycology, tubercle] mainly produced links to web dictionaries. Webster's online defines the usage "Wikipedic", which supports my suspicion. I would think that a better word for this definition would be mycelium. --Hekaheka 06:22, 9 January 2011 (UTC)
 * Shouldn't the term be spelled tubercule? -- Curious, Eiríkr Útlendi | Tala við mig 23:11, 31 January 2011 (UTC)
 * No, in English we use -cle for reflexes of Latin -cula and French -cule. I'm not sure why, though. —Ruakh TALK 01:28, 1 February 2011 (UTC)
 * Thanks, Ruakh. After I posted I did discover that "tubercle" is the much more common spelling, much to my puzzlement.  Curious that molecule squeaked through that historical process with its "u" intact.  -- Eiríkr Útlendi | Tala við mig 20:23, 7 February 2011 (UTC)

Is there anyone who could shed some light to the original question:
 * Does the word "tubercle" have the sense "mass of hyphae from which a mushroom is produced"?. --Hekaheka 19:49, 28 February 2011 (UTC)
 * I don't know. I looked for evidence of it, but couldn't find any; but I know so little about mycology that I couldn't say for sure. —Ruakh TALK 22:10, 28 February 2011 (UTC)
 * Similar to Ruakh's comment: it clearly means something in the context of mushrooms and mycology, but I can't tell what — perhaps (probably) the same thing it means in general biology. - -sche (discuss) 14:50, 16 August 2011 (UTC)
 * Sense rfv-failed. - -sche (discuss) 00:29, 21 August 2011 (UTC)