Definition of Pneumatophores

1. Noun. (plural of pneumatophore) ¹

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Definition of Pneumatophores

1. pneumatophore [n] - See also: pneumatophore

Lexicographical Neighbors of Pneumatophores

pneumatograph
pneumatographs
pneumatohemia
pneumatological
pneumatologies
pneumatologist
pneumatologists
pneumatology
pneumatolyses
pneumatolysis
pneumatolytic
pneumatometer
pneumatometers
pneumatometry
pneumatophore
pneumatophores (current term)
pneumatorrhachis
pneumatoscope
pneumatosis
pneumatosis coli
pneumatosis cystoides
pneumatosis cystoides intestinalis
pneumatosis intestinalis
pneumatothorax
pneumaturia
pneumatype
pneumectomies
pneumectomy
pneumo-
pneumo-orbitography

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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