Haustorium

[hɔ:s'tɔriәm]

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

Editor: Tod--From WordNet

(n.) One of the suckerlike rootlets of such plants as the dodder and ivy.

Typist: Meg

n. a small sucker of a parasitic plant penetrating the tissues of the host:—pl. Haustō′ria.

Typed by Ewing