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Definition of Transpiration

1. Noun. The passage of gases through fine tubes because of differences in pressure or temperature.

2. Noun. The process of giving off or exhaling water vapor through the skin or mucous membranes.

3. Noun. The emission of water vapor from the leaves of plants.

Definition of Transpiration

1. n. The act or process of transpiring or excreting in the form of vapor; exhalation, as through the skin or other membranes of the body; as, pulmonary transpiration, or the excretion of aqueous vapor from the lungs. Perspiration is a form of transpiration.

Definition of Transpiration

1. Noun. (botany) The loss of water by evaporation in terrestrial plants, especially through the stomata; accompanied by a corresponding uptake from the roots. ¹

2. Noun. (physiology) The process of giving off water vapour through the skin or mucous membranes. ¹

3. Noun. The passage of gases through fine tubes. ¹

¹ Source: wiktionary.com

Definition of Transpiration

1. [n -S]

Medical Definition of Transpiration

1. Loss of water vapour from land plants into the atmosphere, causing movement of water through the plant from the soil to the atmosphere via roots, shoot and leaves. Occurs mainly through the stomata. This entry appears with permission from the Dictionary of Cell and Molecular Biology (11 Mar 2008)

Lexicographical Neighbors of Transpiration

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Literary usage of Transpiration

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

1. The Standard Cyclopedia of Horticulture: A Discussion for the Amateur, and by Liberty Hyde Bailey (1917)
"Water which generally contains various mineral soil constituents in solution enters the roots, and most of it passes transpiration is the term applied to ..."

2. Proceedings of the Royal Irish Academy by Royal Irish Academy (1898)
"IT has been pointed out1 that experimental data do not allow us to decide whether the energy which raises the sap in tall trees during transpiration is ..."

3. Botanical Gazette by University of Chicago, JSTOR (Organization) (1896)
"Researches on transpiration and assimilation.1 I. transpiration experiments. Stahl's purpose in writing the paper here reviewed was mainly to present a ..."

4. A Textbook of Botany for Colleges and Universities by John Merle Coulter, Charles Reid Barnes, Henry Chandler Cowles (1911)
"Such stomata either are functionless or they may facilitate respiration and transpiration. It may be noted that some subterranean stomata exhibit guard-cell ..."

5. Gray's Botanical Text-book by Asa Gray (1885)
"Temperature and transpiration. Rise of temperature increases the rate of transpiration not only by affecting evaporation in general, but indirectly also by ..."

6. The Natural History of Plants: Their Forms, Growth, Reproduction, and by Anton Kerner von Marilaun, F. W. Oliver (1895)
"REGULATION OF transpiration. Means of accelerating transpiration.—Maintenance of a free passage for aqueous vapour. MEANS OF ACCELERATING transpiration. ..."

7. Physiological Botany by George Lincoln Goodale (1885)
"Temperature and transpiration. Rise of temperature increases the rate of ... Effect of light upon transpiration. transpiration goes on more rapidly in light ..."

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