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LENTICEL
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Dictionary entry overview: What does lenticel mean?
• LENTICEL (noun)
The noun LENTICEL has 1 sense:
1. one of many raised pores on the stems of woody plants that allow the interchange of gas between the atmosphere and the interior tissue
Familiarity information: LENTICEL used as a noun is very rare.
Dictionary entry details
Sense 1
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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