Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun In botany, a comprehensive term for certain subterranean mycelial growths associated with or preying upon the roots of the higher plants, especially trees, the cultivated vine, etc. They are produced by a considerable variety of fungi, as Agaricus melleus, Dematophora necatrix, etc.
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- noun A rootlike structure, consisting of a dense mass of
hyphae , in manyfungi
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- noun a dense mass of hyphae forming a root-like structure characteristic of many fungi
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Examples
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And what about the lying down of every rhizomorph we have encountered in same direction?
Drowning World Foster, Alan Dean, 1946- 2003
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And what about the lying down of every rhizomorph we have encountered in same direction?
Drowning World Foster, Alan Dean, 1946- 2003
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One thing he knew for sure: it had been ejected by the upright rhizomorph.
Drowning World Foster, Alan Dean, 1946- 2003
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One thing he knew for sure: it had been ejected by the upright rhizomorph.
Drowning World Foster, Alan Dean, 1946- 2003
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Further outward the wood was yellow, with white patches scattered in the yellow matrix, and, again, the rhizomorph strands were seen running in all directions through the mass.
Scientific American Supplement, No. 643, April 28, 1888 Various
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These dark rhizomorphs may also be found spreading around into the soil from the roots, and they look so much like thin roots indeed that we can at once understand their name -- rhizomorph.
Scientific American Supplement, No. 643, April 28, 1888 Various
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On reaching the root of another tree, the tips of the branched rhizomorph penetrate the living cortex, and grow forward in the plane of the cambium, sending off smaller ramifications into the medullary rays and (in the case of the pines, etc.) into the resin passages.
Scientific American Supplement, No. 643, April 28, 1888 Various
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In addition, they report that production of soil rhizomorph length was 27% greater in CO
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Mycorrhizal and rhizomorph dynamics in a loblolly pine forest during 5 years of free-air-CO
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To the right the fructifications have been traced by dissection to the rhizomorph strands which produced them.]
Scientific American Supplement, No. 643, April 28, 1888 Various
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