arbuscle
Meanings
noun
- A plant midway in height between a shrub and a tree; a dwarf tree.
- A branched hypha in some fungi.
- The site at which a symbiotic fungus attaches to the roots of a plant and exchanges nutrients, etc., with it.
- A clump of feather-like cilia (hairlike structures).
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Etymology
Latin arbuscula, diminutive of arbor or arbos (“tree; tuft of feathers”).
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