Arbuscle

Quick meaning: Arbuscle is a noun meaning (botany) A plant midway in height between a shrub and a tree; a dwarf tree.

Meaning

(botany) A plant midway in height between a shrub and a tree; a dwarf tree.

More Meanings

1. (mycology) A branched hypha in some fungi.
2. (mycology) The site at which a symbiotic fungus attaches to the roots of a plant and exchanges nutrients, etc., with it.
3. (zoology) A clump of feather-like cilia (hairlike structures).

Example Sentences

Ar′boret or arbus′cle. A little tree.

The hyphae of the arbuscle, which are finely ramified and form a floccose mass, soon lose their individuality and make a structureless granular and gummy conglomeration […]

Detailed view of a typical fine endophyte arbuscle in the inner cortex. Note the well preserved structural integrity of the endophyte and the characteristic bifurcate hyphae […]. Infection was with the fine endophyte Glomus tenuis […].

The arbuscle formation increases the metabolic activity of the host cell which is mainly due to the bidirectional transfer of metabolites and nutrients to and from the fungus. Arbuscles live for only 4–15 days. They degenerate and are digested by the host cell […].

Word Forms

• arbuscles
• arbuscule

Related Words

Related dictionary entries include arboret, shrub, arbutus, shrublet, arbust, arborcide.

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