HYDATHODE

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does hydathode mean? 

• HYDATHODE (noun)
  The noun HYDATHODE has 1 sense:

1. a pore that exudes water on the surface or margin of a leaf of higher plants

  Familiarity information: HYDATHODE used as a noun is very rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• HYDATHODE (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

A pore that exudes water on the surface or margin of a leaf of higher plants

Classified under:

Nouns denoting plants

Synonyms:

hydathode; water pore; water stoma

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

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

 Context examples 

The microscope analysis of the plant material came up with the exciting discovery that some plants were exuding vaterite from “chalk glands” (hydathodes) on the margins of their leaves.

(Rare mineral discovered in plants for first time, University of Cambridge)