NOUN
- a root-like attachment in parasitic plants that penetrates and obtains food from the host
How To Use haustorium In A Sentence
- What Flinx had felt moving slightly beneath the first man's body armor were bunched strands of haustorium. Flinx In Flux
- After surviving the pseudo-vexfoot's assault, the haustorium-firing fungus, and the rain drain that had swallowed Clarity, it was almost ironic that he should stumble on a dry, smooth chunk of rock. Flinx In Flux
- Graniferous tracheary elements are restricted to the haustorium and occur most frequently in the plate xylem.
- What remained of the truieg fell aside, still encased in graying haustorium. Flinx In Flux
- The germinated seedling infects host roots by developing an haustorium that penetrates the host root and serves as a physiological bridge between the two organisms.
- Before that happened, Flinx promised himself, they would have found their way to the vast common storage room beneath the port and worked their way up to join its stalwart defenders-assuming any had managed to hold out against the attacking fanatics and provided that they did not encounter any more haustorium-firing fungi or pseudo-vexfoots along the way. Flinx In Flux
- I recognize the haustorium," Flinx muttered, "but where did those damn loops come from? Flinx In Flux
- He dropped his eyes to the remnant of truleg still encased in the severed haustorium. Flinx In Flux
