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LENTICEL
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I. (noun)
Sense 1
Meaning:
One of many raised pores on the stems of woody plants that allow the interchange of gas between the atmosphere and the interior tissue
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Hypernyms ("lenticel" is a kind of...):
pore; stoma; stomate (a minute epidermal pore in a leaf or stem through which gases and water vapor can pass)