English Dictionary

arbuscle

/ˈɑːbʌs(ə)l/

noun

(botany) A plant midway in height between a shrub and a tree; a dwarf tree. / (mycology) A branched hypha in some fungi.

The arbuscle is a type of root structure found in mycorrhizal fungi.

意味（1）

(botany) 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 […]

意味（2）

(mycology) 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 […]

意味（3）

(mycology) 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 […].

意味（4）

(zoology) A clump of feather-like cilia (hairlike structures).