Definition of Potometer

1. [n -S]

Lexicographical Neighbors of Potometer

potlatchers
potlatches
potlatching
potless
potlid
potlids
potlike
potlikker
potline
potlines
potluck
potlucks
potman
potmen
potomania
potometer (current term)
potometers
potoo
potoos
potoroo
potoroos
potosiite
potpie
potpies
potplant
potplants
potpourri
potpourris
potrero
potreros

Literary usage of Potometer

Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:

1. Practical Physiology of Plants by Francis Darwin, Edward Hamilton Acton (1909)
"Of the three openings of the potometer, A and B are closed by rubber corks; ... The cork B should first be fitted in, then fill the potometer with water and ..."

2. An Introduction to Vegetable Physiology by Joseph Reynolds Green (1907)
"The effect of alteration of the external conditions upon transpiration may be investigated by means of Darwin's potometer, which enables approximately ..."

3. The Plant World by Plant World Association, Wild Flower Preservation Society (U.S.) (1916)
"Another glass tube 10 mm. in diameter was placed with one end in the gravel layer and the other extending a few centimeters out of the potometer. ..."

4. Proceedings of the Cambridge Philosophical Society by Cambridge Philosophical Society (1886)
"The current was then quickened and the amount of water yielded in 15 m. again weighed, the potometer readings having been again taken. ..."

5. The Physiology of Stomata by Francis Ernest Lloyd (1908)
"*8.6 per cent of water drawn from potometer was absorbed by plant. ... 1, table 10,8.6 percent of the water drawn from the potometer was absorbed by the ..."

6. Practical Physiology of Plants by Francis Darwin, Edward Hamilton Acton (1901)
"Of the three openings of the potometer, A and B are closed by rubber corks; ... The cork B should first be fitted in, then fill the potometer with water and ..."

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