Lenticels

Lenticels

Very small wart-like structures, breaking through the bark of most young twigs. Corky in texture and made of loosely packed cells, providing gaseous exchange between the inner tissues of the stem and the atmosphere.

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A loosely-packed mass of cells in the bark of a woody plant, visible on the surface of a stem as a raised powdery spot, through which gaseous exchange occurs.

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A natural opening in the surface of a stem or tuber, fruit or root for gas exchange.

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A corky spot on the surfaces of twigs through which gases are exchanged between the atmosphere and the underlying tissues. The spot sometimes persists on the barks of branches.

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Very small wart-like structures, breaking through the bark of most young twigs. Corky in texture and made of loosely packed cells, providing gaseous exchange between the inner ...

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Language; Dictionaries

One of the small, oval, rounded spots upon the stem or branch of a plant, from which the underlying tissues may protrude or roots may issue, either in the air, or more commonly ...