PNEUMATOPHORE


Meaning of PNEUMATOPHORE in English

noun Etymology: International Scientific Vocabulary Date: 1859 a muscular gas-containing sac that serves as a float on a siphonophore colony, a usually partially exposed root of a wetland plant (as a mangrove) that functions especially in the intake of oxygen from the atmosphere

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