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  • In botany and zoology, relating or belonging to stomata.

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  • adjective Of or pertaining to a stoma.

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  • adjective relating to or of the nature of or having a mouth or mouthlike opening
  • adjective relating to or constituting plant stomata

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Examples

  • Gil-Pelegrin emphasises the effectiveness of the technique, "even to detect critical moments for plants, such as stomatal closure".

    PhysOrg.com - latest science and technology news stories 2010

  • Gil-Pelegrin emphasises the effectiveness of the technique, "even to detect critical moments for plants, such as stomatal closure".

    PhysOrg.com - latest science and technology news stories 2010

  • Gil-Pelegrin emphasises the effectiveness of the technique, "even to detect critical moments for plants, such as stomatal closure".

    Signs of the Times 2010

  • Additionally, these measurements are consistent with various less accurate methods such as using the size of stomatal pores on tree leaves, boron isotope measurements in plankton buried under the ocean, or carbon isotope ratios in algae buried in the ocean floors, moss samples, and foraminefera carbonate shells.

    Archive 2010-03-01 EliRabett 2010

  • Additionally, these measurements are consistent with various less accurate methods such as using the size of stomatal pores on tree leaves, boron isotope measurements in plankton buried under the ocean, or carbon isotope ratios in algae buried in the ocean floors, moss samples, and foraminefera carbonate shells.

    Eli can retire 1 EliRabett 2010

  • Relationships among maximum stomatal conductance, ecosystem surface conductance, carbon assimilation rate, and plant nitrogen nutrition: a global ecology scaling exercise.

    Effects of changes in climate and UV radiation levels on function of arctic ecosystems in the short and long term 2009

  • Conversely, sensible heat flux is a larger proportion of the energy transfer to the atmosphere when air is cold and moist or when drought limits stomatal conductance under dry conditions.

    Effects of climate change on landscape and regional processes and feedbacks to the climate system in the Arctic 2009

  • Cold moist air from coastal oceans, for example, minimizes latent heat flux (evapotranspiration), as does extremely warm dry air, which can induce stomatal closure [40]; evapotranspiration is therefore greatest at intermediate temperatures.

    Effects of climate change on landscape and regional processes and feedbacks to the climate system in the Arctic 2009

  • As internal leaf CO2 concentrations decline due to stomatal closure, the enzyme Rubisco tends to fix more oxygen and liberates CO2 in a process known as photorespiration.

    Photosynthesis 2009

  • Needles are 2-6 cm long, flattened, strongly waxy and silvery-white on the lower surface, green above, mostly 2-ranked, spreading horizontally, not concealing the upper surface of twigs, the needles 1-ranked and spiraled higher on the tree; resin canals marginal, located near the lower epidermis; stomatal rows absent on the upper surface at midleaf, 5-7 stomatal rows on each side of midrib of lower surface.

    Grand fir 2009

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