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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 tissueplay

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


 Dictionary entry details 


LENTICEL (noun)


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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