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Transpiration

noun
1.
The passage of gases through fine tubes because of differences in pressure or temperature.
2.
The process of giving off or exhaling water vapor through the skin or mucous membranes.
3.
The emission of water vapor from the leaves of plants.





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"Transpiration" Quotes from Famous Books



... the irregular intercellular spaces which permeate the interior of the leaf. Through the stomata, when open, free interchange may take place between the external air and that within the leaf, and thus transpiration be much facilitated. When closed, this interchange will ...
— Outlines of Lessons in Botany, Part I; From Seed to Leaf • Jane H. Newell
... Nothing stands alone, nothing exists merely for itself. The persons not only have each their several development, but also, besides this, and running into this, a development in common. In short, their whole transpiration proceeds by the laws and from the blood of mutual membership. And as each lives and moves and has his being, so each is to be understood and interpreted, with reference, explicit or implicit, to all ...
— Shakespeare: His Life, Art, And Characters, Volume I. • H. N. Hudson


Words linked to "Transpiration" :   body process, bodily process, natural process, transpire, bodily function, biological process, natural action, activity, action, organic process


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