单词 | root filament |
释义 | > as lemmasroot filament root filament n. [after German Wurzelfaser (1843 in the passage translated in quot. 1847)] ΚΠ 1847 A. Tulk tr. L. Oken Elements Physiophilos. §1391. 263 Through the process of putrefaction many kinds of antagonisms and attractions, by which the absorption takes place through the root-filaments, are aroused. 1913 A. F. Blakeslee & C. D. Jarvis Trees in Winter i. 34 Absorption of water and minerals in solution is the great service of roots, but it is only their smallest branchlets—the root fibrils—that are capable of taking in water. 1988 S. Crawford Mayordomo 82 Our collapsed ditch banks may be how that unfinished tale ends—in a gaping hole strung by root filaments and stood over by a man with a shovel in the bright morning light. < as lemmas |
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