arbuscle

Tanımlar (İngilizce)

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