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Definition of Root hair
1. Noun. Thin hairlike outgrowth of an epidermal cell just behind the tip; absorbs nutrients from the soil.
Definition of Root hair
1. Noun. (biology) The rhizoid of a vascular plant; a tubular outgrowth of a trichoblast, a hair-forming cell on the epidermis of a plant root. ¹
¹ Source: wiktionary.com
Lexicographical Neighbors of Root Hair
Literary usage of Root hair
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. An Introduction to Vegetable Physiology by Joseph Reynolds Green (1900)
"The hygroscopic film of water is thus separated from the interior of the root-hair
by a most delicate pellicle of cell- wall substance, lined by an almost ..."
2. An Introduction to Vegetable Physiology by Joseph Reynolds Green (1907)
"The hygroscopic film of water is thus separated from the interior of the root-hair
by a most delicate pellicle of cell- wall substance, ..."
3. The Science of Everyday Life: Projects for Junior High Schools by Edgar Flandreau Van Buskirk, Edith Lillian Smith (1919)
"Each little root-hair, then, is not even the whole of one cell, ... How a root-hair
absorbs soil water. The root-hairs are so small that it is hard to see ..."
4. Histology of Medicinal Plants by William Mansfield (1916)
"The protoplast lines the cell, and the central part of the root hair consists
... The wall of the root hair is composed of cellulose, and the outermost part ..."
5. Bacteria in Relation to Plant Diseases by Erwin Frink Smith (1911)
""Having entered the root-hair by softening or dissolving a small portion of the
... "The bacteria in the infection thread, which grows through the root-hair ..."
6. The Plant World by Plant World Association, Wild Flower Preservation Society (U.S.) (1913)
"2 Distal end of an old root-hair, close to the one from which figure 1 was ...
6 Plug of callose in a large, old root-hair; the distal end breaking down and ..."
7. Plant Anatomy from the Standpoint of the Development and Functions of the by William Chase Stevens (1916)
"Can you now make out that a root hair is an outgrowth of an epidermal cell? ...
Draw an entire root hair including the enlarged basal part. ..."
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