wood-wide web

plural wood-wide webs

1. alternativeAlternative form of wood wide web.

   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

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   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

   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