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aerial roots

aerial roots is the plural of aerial root.

Meaning of aerial root

Noun

aerial root (plural aerial roots)

  1. Any adventitious root that grows from a plant stem above ground.
    • The most extraordinary trees of the forest are, however, a kind of fig, the aerial roots of which form a pyramid near a hundred feet high, terminating just where the tree branches out above, so that there is no real trunk.1869, Alfred Russel Wallace, The Malay Archipelago, volume II, London: Macmillan and Co., page 60
    Synonyms:
    air root

Questions about aerial roots

What is aerial roots the plural of?
Aerial roots is the plural of aerial root.

Words near aerial roots in the dictionary

  1. aerial photos
  2. aerial ping pong
  3. aerial railway
  4. aerial railways
  5. aerial root
  6. aerial roots
  7. aerial ropeslide
  8. aerial ropeslides
  9. aerial ropeway
  10. aerial ropeways
  11. aerial runway

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