haustoria in English

noun
1
a slender projection from the root of a parasitic plant, such as a dodder, or from the hyphae of a parasitic fungus, enabling the parasite to penetrate the tissues of its host and absorb nutrients from it.
Parasitic plants can form haustoria within various host tissues, and this has led to convenient, yet unsatisfactory distinctions being made between a ‘shoot parasite’ and a ‘root parasite’.

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1. Mature haustoria of H. parasitica were distinctly pyriform in shape.

2. None of the haustoria in epidermal cells showed any structural abnormality.

3. Calcium chloride enhanced the incidence of haustoria but depressed that of papillae.

4. Deep down, Beechdrops lives by connecting its haustoria to the roots of the beech below ground in winter

5. Broomrapes produce little or no chlorophyll; instead, they draw nourishment from the roots of other plants by means of small suckers called haustoria.

6. Haustoria A specialized outgrowth of many parasitic fungi and certain parasitic plants such as dodder and broomrape, that penetrates into and withdraws food material from the cells of the host plant.