The sucker of a parasitic plant by which the parasite anchors itself into the host plant.
Roots or suckers found in parasitic plants.
A structure by which a parasitic plant anchors itself to and extracts nutrition from its host.
In parasitic vascular plants, a specialized outgrowth from the stem or root that penetrates the living host tissues and absorbs foods or other materials.
A rudimentary or intricate arrangement produced from a relationship between a bough of a fungal hypha and a recipient cell into which it has infiltrated without inflicting mortal harm, typically believed to supply a mechanism through which a fungus assimilates sustenance from the recipient cells.