Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun In botany, a former name of the spongy tissue of a root-tip, from its supposed property of sucking up moisture like a sponge. Also called
spongelet .
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- noun (Bot.) A supposed spongelike expansion of the tip of a rootlet for absorbing water; -- called also
spongelet .
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- noun botany A supposed
sponge -likeexpansion of thetip of arootlet forabsorbing water .
Etymologies
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Latin spongiola a rose gall, small roots, diminutive of spongia: compare French spongiole.
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The pistil consists of a hollow tube called the style, terminating at one end in a kind of spongiole named the stigma; at the other, in the seed-vessel or ovary.
Theism: The Witness of Reason and Nature to an All-Wise and Beneficent Creator. 1823-1886 1855
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