haustorium Meaning, Definition & Usage

  1. noun a root-like attachment in parasitic plants that penetrates and obtains food from the host

WordNet

Haus*to"ri*um noun
Etymology
LL., a well, fr. L. haurire, haustum, to drink.
Wordforms
plural Haustoria
Definitions
  1. (Bot.) One of the suckerlike rootlets of such plants as the dodder and ivy. R. Brown.

Webster 1913