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AIR CAVITY [1 record]

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Record 1 1996-03-05

English

Subject field(s)
  • Paleontology
  • Botany
DEF

A large intercellular space in a leaf into which a stoma opens.

CONT

What determines where a leaf will grow? ... How does such a complex biochemical power station, with its infrastructure of pipes (veins), ducts (air spaces) and vents (stomatal pores), emerge from an apparently featureless nub of a hundred or so cells?

French

Domaine(s)
  • Paléontologie
  • Botanique
DEF

cavités intercellulaires de formes diverses, qui servent à l'aération interne du corps végétal.

CONT

chambre sous-stomatique d'un stomate.

Spanish

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