arbuscle

名词 n.

英文释义

名词 n.
  1. A plant midway in height between a shrub and a tree; a dwarf tree.
    — Gumme is an Arabick word, and when it is put abſolutely; it muſt be underſtood of Gum-Arabick, which Galen calls Thebane, ſome Babylonian, and others Acanthine Gumme. It flowes from a certain arbuſcle, which [Pedanius] Dioſcorides calls Acacia, whereof he conſtitutes two ſorts […]
  2. A branched hypha in some fungi.
    — 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 […]
  3. The site at which a symbiotic fungus attaches to the roots of a plant and exchanges nutrients, etc., with it.
    — 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 […].
  4. A clump of feather-like cilia (hairlike structures).

词形变化

arbuscles plural arbuscule alternative

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Latin arbuscula, diminutive of arbor or arbos (“tree; tuft of feathers”).
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