Definition of Mycorhiza

1. [n -ZAE or -ZAS]

Lexicographical Neighbors of Mycorhiza

mycoplasma pneumoniae
mycoplasmal
mycoplasmal pneumonia
mycoplasmas
mycoplasmata
mycoplasmataceae
mycoplasmatales
mycoplasmatales infections
mycoplasmic
mycoplasms
mycoprotein
mycoproteins
mycopus
mycoremediation
mycoremediations
mycorhiza (current term)
mycorhizae
mycorhizas
mycorrhiza
mycorrhizae
mycorrhizal
mycorrhizas
mycorrhization
mycorrhizations
mycorrhized
mycose
mycoses
mycoside
mycosis
mycosis cutis chronica

Literary usage of Mycorhiza

Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:

1. Diseases of Cultivated Plants and Trees by George Massee (1915)
"mycorhiza It has long been known that the rootlets of various plants are surrounded by a sheath consisting of fungus hyphae. ..."

2. A College Text-book of Botany: Being an Enlargement of the Author's by George Francis Atkinson (1905)
"mycorhiza. 191. While such plants as the Indian pipe (Monotropa), some of the orchids, etc., are humus saprophytes and some of them are possibly able to ..."

3. Lectures on Plant Physiology by Ludwig Jost (1907)
"If the Phanerogams possessing mycorhiza be green and can therefore assimilate ... This form of mycorhiza was first drawn attention to by KAMIENSKI (1881) in ..."

4. An Introduction to Vegetable Physiology by Joseph Reynolds Green (1907)
"A, EPIPHYTIC mycorhiza OF Fagna ... There being no chlorophyll apparatus, Monotropa is dependent entirely on the mycorhiza for its nourishment. ..."

5. Botany for High Schhools by George Francis Atkinson (1912)
"mycorhiza.—The structure which results from the union of bacteria or fungi with the roots of plants, similar to that described in the preceding paragraphs, ..."

6. The Indian Forester (1905)
"... a resume of the investigations to date on the mycorhiza—literally root-fungus—and the point to which scientists have got in dealing with this question. ..."

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