LENTICEL

Pronunciation (US):

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 I. (noun) 

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Meaning:

One of many raised pores on the stems of woody plants that allow the interchange of gas between the atmosphere and the interior tissue

Classified under:

Nouns denoting plants

Hypernyms ("lenticel" is a kind of...):

pore; stoma; stomate (a minute epidermal pore in a leaf or stem through which gases and water vapor can pass)

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