hydathode

1. 1.

   a pore that exudes water on the surface or margin of a leaf of higher plants

   Synonymswater porewater stoma

   Broaderstoma

Other forms of hydathode

plural

hydathodes·

Forms marked · are formed by the regular rule rather than recorded in the source data. English keeps a few hundred irregulars and the rest follow the pattern, so the rule is right far more often than not — but it is a rule, and the mark says so.

Questions about hydathode

What does hydathode mean?

hydathode means "a pore that exudes water on the surface or margin of a leaf of higher plants".

How many syllables are in hydathode?

hydathode has 3 syllables: hy-da-thode. The stress falls on "hy".

What is another word for hydathode?

Close synonyms include water pore, water stoma. Each sense on this page lists its own synonyms, because a word with several meanings rarely has one substitute that works for all of them.

Is hydathode a common word?

hydathode is banded "Uncommon" — turns up in careful writing rather than conversation. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.