Definition of haustorium in English:
 haustorium
nounPlural haustoria hɔːˈstɔːrɪəmhôˈstôrēəm
Botany - A slender projection from the root of a parasitic plant, such as a dodder, or from the hyphae of a parasitic fungus, enabling the parasite to penetrate the tissues of its host and absorb nutrients from it. -  Example sentencesExamples -  Mildew hyphae grow on the exterior of the plant and remove nutrients from their host via haustoria sent into epidermal cells.
-  Cuscuta contains at least 158 species that no longer possess leaves, but their stems twine around host plants producing numerous haustoria to obtain nutrients.
-  Specialized parasitic structures called haustoria are formed within host cells, through which nutrients are drawn from the host.
-  The germinated seedling infects host roots by developing an haustorium that penetrates the host root and serves as a physiological bridge between the two organisms.
-  Parasitic plants can form haustoria within various host tissues, and this has led to convenient, yet unsatisfactory distinctions being made between a ‘shoot parasite’ and a ‘root parasite’.
 
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Botany -  The host sieve elements of the phloem are lined by haustorial transfer cells of the parasite, which then allow unloading of host phloem solutes into the parasite haustorium. 
-  Example sentencesExamples -  A requirement for infection is the differentiation of root-like protrusions, which are capable of producing haustorial connections to the host.
-  The sucrose supplied by the megagametophyte is absorbed by the embryo cotyledons, acting as haustorial organs, and then transported into the embryonic tissues for seedling growth and development.
-  Ultrastructural studies of the silky layer revealed that none of the hyphae in this layer form haustorial connections with the algae.
-  The placentas are likewise the same in the four genera and comprise elongate haustorial sporophyte cells growing into the closely adjacent gametophyte cells.
 
Origin
  
Late 19th century: modern Latin, from Latin haustor 'thing that draws in', from the verb haurire.