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haustorium
WORDNET DICTIONARY
Noun haustorium has 1 sense
CIDE DICTIONARY
haustorium, n. [LL., a well, fr. L. haurire, haustum, to drink.].
One of the suckerlike rootlets of such plants as the dodder and ivy. R. Brown. [1913 Webster]
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