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Root hair Moderate

Root hair has 2 different meanings across 1 category:

Noun

Definitions
Noun
1

thin hairlike outgrowth of an epidermal cell just behind the tip; absorbs nutrients from the soil

2

The rhizoid of a vascular plant; a tubular outgrowth of a trichoblast, a hair-forming cell on the epidermis of a plant root.

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Broader Terms (hypernyms)
plant organ
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