arbuscle

Senso (Inglese)

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

sinonimi

bush

shrub

frutex

Traduzioni

arbuscule

arbúsculo

Pronunciato come (IPA)

/ˈɑːbʌs(ə)l/

Etimologia (Inglese)

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