STOMA

• (noun) a mouth or mouthlike opening (especially one created by surgery on the surface of the body to create an opening to an internal organ)

• (noun) a minute epidermal pore in a leaf or stem through which gases and water vapor can pass

  synonyms : pore , stomate

  A single leaf can have up to six million pores! -added by naila_inlas

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