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Definition of Pneumatophores
1. pneumatophore [n] - See also: pneumatophore
Lexicographical Neighbors of Pneumatophores
Literary usage of Pneumatophores
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Organography of Plants, Especially of the Archegoniata and Spermaphyta by Karl Goebel, Isaac Bayley Balfour (1905)
"The pneumatophores have their internal structure, which I cannot describe here,
arranged specially for intense gas-exchange. They spring from the roots ..."
2. Plant-geography Upon a Physiological Basis by Andreas Franz Wilhelm Schimper (1903)
"pneumatophores. Physiognomy of the mangrove-forest in South Java. Nipa-formation.
Transition to the inland formations. The Western mangrove, v. ..."
3. Contributions from the United States National Herbarium by United States National Herbarium, United States National Museum (1897)
"The roots of certain trees which grow in the water or in saturated soil in various
parts of the world2 develop pneumatophores—projections which rise ..."
4. Torreya by Torrey Botanical Club (1915)
"... noteworthy for its development of aeren- chyma on special pneumatophores along
the stem at each node. These are adventitious roots, the nature of which ..."
5. Organography of Plants, Especially of the Archegoniata and Spermaphyta by Karl Goebel, Isaac Bayley Balfour (1905)
"The pneumatophores have their internal structure, which I cannot describe here,
arranged specially for intense gas-exchange. They spring from the roots ..."
6. Plant-geography Upon a Physiological Basis by Andreas Franz Wilhelm Schimper (1903)
"pneumatophores. Physiognomy of the mangrove-forest in South Java. Nipa-formation.
Transition to the inland formations. The Western mangrove, v. ..."
7. Contributions from the United States National Herbarium by United States National Herbarium, United States National Museum (1897)
"The roots of certain trees which grow in the water or in saturated soil in various
parts of the world2 develop pneumatophores—projections which rise ..."
8. Torreya by Torrey Botanical Club (1915)
"... noteworthy for its development of aeren- chyma on special pneumatophores along
the stem at each node. These are adventitious roots, the nature of which ..."
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