air layer

American  

verb (used without object)

1. to treat a plant by means of air layering.

2. to use air layering to propagate a plant.

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noun

1. a plant, commonly a young one, that has been propagated by air layering.

Etymology

Origin of air layer

First recorded in 1910–15

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Example Sentences

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air layer

And dust storms from the Saharan air layer, which contains warm, dry and dusty air from Africa, can suppress tropical cyclones.

From Scientific American ● Jun. 1, 2023

Explain the functions of the various parts, such as the vacuum, the silvering of the walls, the thin-walled long glass neck, the rubber support, the air layer, and the stopper.

From Textbooks ● Aug. 12, 2015

It enables a floating fern to maintain an air layer, even when submerged.

From Science Magazine ● Mar. 13, 2014

This video does a brilliant job, thanks to some fortuitous backlighting, of showing spores being ejected into the turbulent air layer above the mushrooms,where they are carried away on a gentle current.

From Scientific American ● Sep. 5, 2012

Unless I could find some method of compensating for my lost ballast, the inverse gravity of my inertron ship would hurl me continuously upward until I shot forth from the last air layer into space.

From The Airlords of Han by Frank R. Paul

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