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aerial root

noun

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  1. Any adventitious root that grows from a plant stem above ground.

    • The most extraordinary trees of the forest are, however, a kind of fig, the aerial roots of which form a pyramid near a hundred feet high, terminating just where the tree branches out above, so that there is no real trunk.

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