🔤 Aerial Root ✨

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URDU

فضائی جڑ، ہوا میں نکلنے والی جڑ، نمایاں جڑ
🅰️ Roman Urdu:
fizaai jarr, hawa mein nikalnay wali jarr, numainda jarr
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ENGLISH

📚noun
aerial root
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PRONUNCIATION

Standard: /ˈeəriəl ruːt/
Phonetic: /air ee uhl root/
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DEFINITION

a root that grows above the ground from a stem or branch
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EXAMPLE SENTENCES

The banyan tree sends down aerial roots that thicken into new supporting trunks over time. Orchids use aerial roots to absorb moisture directly from the humid forest air. Mangrove trees develop aerial roots that help them breathe in waterlogged coastal mud. Gardeners wrapped the aerial root in damp moss to keep the climbing plant healthy indoors. Aerial roots of the strangler fig slowly surround the host tree and reach the ground.
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SYNONYMS

adventitious root air root climbing root prop root
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ANTONYMS

taproot underground root
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