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aerial root en · NOUN

Meanings

1. Any adventitious root that grows from a plant stem above ground.
   • The most extraordinary trees of the forest are, however, a kind of fig, the aerial roots of which form a pyramid near a hundred feet high, terminating just where the tree branches out above, so that there is no real trunk. 1869, Alfred Russel Wallace, The Malay Archipelago, volume II, London: Macmillan and Co., page 60:

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air root