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arbuscle.

A plant midway in height between a shrub and a tree; a dwarf tree.

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Meaning & usage

noun/ˈɑːbʌs(ə)l/
  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).

Where this word comes from

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

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