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Meanings of root-hairs in English
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Usage of root-hairs in English
1
From the root-hairs, foods are carried to the inside of the root.
2
The root-hairs are found only on the young parts of roots.
3
The plant food in the manure soaks into the soil and immediately reaches the root-hairs.
4
Germinate some oats or beans in a glass-sided box, as suggested, and observe the root-hairs.
5
It puts out root-hairs, which attach themselves to the particles of sand and hold the seed.
6
If we examine the root-hairs ever so closely, we find no holes, or openings, in them.
7
The mechanical aid afforded by the root-hairs in penetrating the ground is probably only a secondary service.
8
As a root grows older the root-hairs die, and it becomes of no further use for absorption.
9
Wherever the roots, with their root-hairs have crept, they have eaten into the marble and left it corroded.
10
Their attention should also be drawn to the root-hairs, which are well seen in Corn, Wheat, and Oats.
11
Then, as roots and root-hairs of plants strike down among these they find the two necessities, air and water.
12
Externally root-hairs are formed on the confluent petioles, either a little above, or on a level with, the plumule.
13
The radicle can be distinguished from the hypocotyl only by the presence of root-hairs and the nature of its covering.
14
The water used by plants is almost entirely taken from the soil by the minute root-hairs radiating from the roots.
15
These root-hairs, which cluster about the growing point of the young roots, are the organs of the plant that absorb soil-water.
16
A secondary office of root-hairs is to aid the roots of seedlings to enter the ground, as we have before noticed.
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