transpiration
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Transpiration is the loss of water from the plant through evaporation at the leaf surface.
From Textbooks • Jun. 9, 2022
Transpiration causes water to return to the leaves through the xylem vessels.
From Textbooks • Jun. 9, 2022
Transpiration is the loss of water through leaves, which may be replaced by water drawn into the leaf through xylem in the vascular tissue.
From Textbooks • Jan. 1, 2018
Transpiration cools leaves on hot days, but threatens leaves if water is scarce.
From Textbooks • Jan. 1, 2018
Whether any considerable change is to be observ'd in the Pulse, Urin, and other Excrements of the Recipient Animal, by this Operation, or the quantity of his insensible Transpiration?
From Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society - Vol 1 - 1666 Giving some Accompt of the present Undertakings, Studies, and Labours of the Ingenious in many considerable parts of the World by Oldenburg, Henry
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