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▸ noun: (botany) A lump found on the roots of some plants, primarily legumes, that forms a symbiosis with nitrogen-fixing bacteria known as rhizobia, allowing the plant to obtain nitrogen directly from the atmosphere, which most plants cannot do.
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▸ noun: (botany) A lump found on the roots of some plants, primarily legumes, that forms a symbiosis with nitrogen-fixing bacteria known as rhizobia, allowing the plant to obtain nitrogen directly from the atmosphere, which most plants cannot do.
Similar:
bacteroid,
rhizobium,
actinorhiza,
root,
root hair,
nodulation,
nitrophyte,
pseudoroot,
root system,
rhizoid,
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