arbuscle

Meaning

1. noun A plant midway in height between a shrub and a tree; a dwarf tree.
2. noun A branched hypha in some fungi.
3. noun The site at which a symbiotic fungus attaches to the roots of a plant and exchanges nutrients, etc., with it.
4. noun A clump of feather-like cilia (hairlike structures).

Similar words

arboret shrub arbutus shrublet arbust arborcide arbor bush arbute subshrub