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air layer

verb (used without object)

  1. to treat a plant by means of air layering.
  2. to use air layering to propagate a plant.


noun

  1. a plant, commonly a young one, that has been propagated by air layering.
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Word History and Origins

Origin of air layer1

First recorded in 1910–15
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Example Sentences

When the lizard exhales, air exits through the nostrils and expands the trapped air layer.

When the lizard now exhales, Boccia thinks that this air exits through the nostrils and expands the trapped air layer.

Depending on how deep the cold air layer is and how long it holds will determine whether the bulk of the precipitation falls as snow, ice or rain.

Issued to the military for decades, it’s a heavy rubber boot with a highly-effective insulating air layer, and completely waterproof.

So the extra equivalent air layer due to the motion is approximately ±α z cos θ, a quantity independent of μ.

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