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root hair

Bot. any of the thin-walled, hairlike tubular outgrowths from a growing root, which serve to absorb water and minerals from the soil

Webster's New World College Dictionary Copyright © 2005 by Wiley Publishing, Inc., Cleveland, Ohio.
Used by arrangement with John Wiley & Sons, Inc.

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