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guard cell definition

guard cell

either of the two bean-shaped cells which surround and control a stoma, or air pore, in the epidermis of a plant

Webster's New World College Dictionary Copyright © 2009 by Wiley Publishing, Inc., Cleveland, Ohio.
Used by arrangement with John Wiley & Sons, Inc.

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