Meanings
nounaerial root (plural aerial roots)
plural aerial roots
- biologyAny 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.
1869, Alfred Russel Wallace, The Malay Archipelago, volume II, London: Macmillan and Co., page 60Synonyms: air root
Synonyms & antonyms
nounAny adventitious root that grows from a plant stem above ground.
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