endotrophic mycorrhiza

/ ˌɛndəʊˈtrɒfɪk /

noun

1. Also called: endomycorrhiza.  arbuscular mycorrhiza. botany the most widespread and common type of mycorrhiza, in which the fungus lives within the cells of the roots of the plant Compare ectotrophic mycorrhiza

Example Sentences

As Macaulay would say, "every school boy knows" now that leguminous root nodules are endotrophic mycorrhiza,—but the Romans did not!

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