NOUN
- an air-filled root (submerged or exposed) that can function as a respiratory organ of a marsh or swamp plant
How To Use pneumatophore In A Sentence
- Some, but not all, float by means of a large pneumatophore.
- The Man-of-War floats on a gas-filled, blue to pink, translucent body called a pneumatophore.
- Some but not all float by means of a large pneumatophore, or gas bag.
- No understory or ground level vegetation was present except for the pneumatophores of the mangrove trees.
- Many associated dicot canopy species have stilt roots or pneumatophores. Tonle Sap-Mekong peat swamp forests
- The pneumatophores are erect side branches of the horizontal roots which grow just below the soil
- Mangrove trees are adapted to these challenging conditions by producing shallow, horizontally oriented root systems with vertical, subaerial pneumatophores, which may stand up to 30 cm above water level in some species.
