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Haustorium

Haustorium Meaning & Definition
Haustorium Definition And Meaning

What's The Definition Of Haustorium?

[n] a rootlike attachment in parasitic plants that penetrates and obtains food from the host

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Haustorium In Webster's Dictionary

\Haus*to"ri*um\, n.; pl. {Haustoria}. [LL., a well, fr. L. haurire, haustum, to drink.] (Bot.) One of the suckerlike rootlets of such plants as the dodder and ivy. --R. Brown.

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