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 KingsleyMy 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. SeveryA wild pine grew in the lowest fork, and had kindly let down an air-root into the soil.
At Last|Charles Kingsley