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from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- (Zoöl.) A pore by which the water tubes of various invertebrates open externally.
- (Bot.) One of certain minute pores in the leaves of some plants. They are without true guardian cells, but in other respects closely resemble ordinary stomata.
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- noun a pore that exudes water on the surface or margin of a leaf of higher plants
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