air root


Words Nearby air root

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How to use air root in a sentence

  • Look at the single long straight air-root which it is letting down by the side of the tree bole.

    At Last | Charles Kingsley
  • My path lay by the banyan tree under which we had so often sat, but every air-root seemed changed to a writhing serpent.

    The Darrow Enigma | Melvin L. Severy
  • A wild pine grew in the lowest fork, and had kindly let down an air-root into the soil.

    At Last | Charles Kingsley