leaf gap

American

noun

Botany.

(in the stele of vascular plants) a break in the tissue of a stem around a leaf trace.

leaf gap British

noun

botany a region of parenchyma cells in the vascular tissue of flowering plants and some ferns, situated above a leaf trace

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He was sighting the ray tube through a leaf gap.

From Star Hunter by Norton, Andre

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