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air root

American  

noun

  1. Botany. pneumatophore.

air root Scientific  

  1. See pneumatophore

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Suiting action to words, he climbed up the small trunk of the air root, and swung over into the hollow where he had piled the reeds.

From Into the Primitive by Bennett, Robert Ames

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