wood-wide web

English

Noun

wood-wide web (plural wood-wide webs)

  1. Alternative form of wood wide web
    • 2020, Brian Grogan, The Amazing Story of a Small Blue Planet, page 58:
      While they work hard for us and for the environment, they also form a 'wood-wide web' of mutual communication and support through fungal interconnections.
    • 2021, Henry Gee, A (Very) Short History of Life On Earth:
      When you next walk in the woods, consider that in the ground beneath your feet, the mycorrhizae of different plants have linked up to exchange nutrients, forming a wood-wide web that regulates the growth of the entire forest.
    • 2022, Steve Trudell, Mushrooms of the Pacific Northwest:
      Other evidence suggests the existence of “wood-wide webs” in which forest trees are tied together into large networks by fungal hyphae connecting their roots.
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