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from The Century Dictionary.
- noun In botany, the air-vessel or bladder by means of which many algæ, as Fucus vesiculosus, are supported in the water, and oceanic species, as the gulfweed, float on the surface. See cut under
air-cell .
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- noun (Bot.) One of the air cells of algals.
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- noun An
air vesicle .
Etymologies
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aero- + cyst
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