Root Hair Definition

noun
Any of the thin-walled, hairlike tubular outgrowths from a growing root, which serve to absorb water and minerals from the soil.
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Other Word Forms of Root Hair

Noun

Singular:
root hair
Plural:
root-hairs

Root Hair Sentence Examples

  • Other bioassays have used the effects of ethene on root hair formation or leaf abscission.

  • B, spores germinate away from a living root hair (rh ).

  • B, spores germinate away from a living root hair (rh).

  • As the tube grows down the hair it maintains its own independence, and does not fuse with the contents of the root-hair, whose protoplasm remains quite distinct and separate.

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