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wood-wide web en · NOUN

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1. (alt-of, alternative) Alternative form of wood wide web.
   alt of wood wide web
   • 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. 2021, Henry Gee, A (Very) Short History of Life On Earth:
   • 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. 2020, Brian Grogan, The Amazing Story of a Small Blue Planet, page 58:
   • 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. 2022, Steve Trudell, Mushrooms of the Pacific Northwest:

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