arbuscule

noun

ar·​bus·​cule

plural -s

1

: a tuft of hairs or cilia

2

: a branched treelike organ

specifically : one of the treelike haustorial organs in certain mycorrhizal fungi

Word History

Etymology

Latin arbuscula

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