📚 Mycorrhiza, noun. 🔉 /ˌmʌɪkə(ʊ)ˈrʌɪzə/ 🇬🇧 ❓ Definition (Botany): A fungus which grows in association with the roots of a plant in a symbiotic or mildly pathogenic relationship. ❗️ Examples: 1. In addition, most vascular plants could not grow without the symbiotic fungi, or mycorrhizae, that inhabit their roots and supply essential nutrients. 2. A special type of beneficial root fungi, called mycorrhizae, actually grow into plant roots, feeding off plant sap but also providing water and nutrients to the plant. 3. These data thus support the authors' suggestion that mycorrhizae are important in enabling plant roots to exploit nutrient patches that might otherwise be out of reach. 4. The specialized roots which the plants grow and the fungus which inhabits them are together known as mycorrhizae, or ‘fungal roots’. 5. For the past two years Dave has been working on a system of growing the mycorrhizae on a host grass plant in small beds of compost. ━━━━━━━━━━━━━ 🌀 @cambridge_dic