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Definition of Arbuscle
1. n. A dwarf tree, one in size between a shrub and a tree; a treelike shrub.
Definition of Arbuscle
1. Noun. (botany) A plant midway between a shrub and a tree ¹
2. Noun. (biology) A branched hypha in some fungi ¹
¹ Source: wiktionary.com
Definition of Arbuscle
1. a dwarf tree [n -S]
Medical Definition of Arbuscle
1. A dwarf tree, one in size between a shrub and a tree; a treelike shrub. Origin: L. Arbuscula small tree, shrub, dim. Of arbor tree. Source: Websters Dictionary (01 Mar 1998)
Lexicographical Neighbors of Arbuscle
Literary usage of Arbuscle
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. A Dictionary of the English Language by Samuel Johnson, John Walker, Robert S. Jameson (1828)
"ARBORIST, (ar'-bo-rist) ns One who makes trees his study. ARBOUR, (ar'-bur) ns
A bower ; a place covered with branches of trees. arbuscle, (ar'-bus-sl) ns ..."
2. Notes of a Botanist on the Amazon & Andes: Being Records of Travel on the by Richard Spruce, Alfred Russel Wallace (1908)
"It is an arbuscle of 8 to 10 feet, bearing a coma of large, long, deep green
coriaceous leaves, so that without flower it has quite the aspect of a Grias ..."
3. Lectures on the comparative anatomy and physiology of the invertebrate animals by Richard Owen (1855)
"... show that the finest division of the branchial arbuscle contains a double
vessel, enveloped in a common muscular, although extremely diaphanous sheath. ..."
4. Psyche: A Journal of Entomology by Cambridge Entomological Club (1890)
"... arbuscle (shrubbery) whose last ramifications are not only recurved but
anastomosed so as to complete the ..."
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