aereous
English
[edit]Etymology
[edit]Adjective
[edit]aereous (comparative more aereous, superlative most aereous)
- Resembling or consisting of air.
- 2014, Joost T van Dongen, Francesco Licausi, Low-Oxygen Stress in Plants: Oxygen Sensing and Adaptive Responses to Hypoxia[1]:
- It should be kept in mind that for horticultural crops, oxygen supply to the root mainly occurs through open, aereous pores in a substrate, which may be logged at water contents above approximately 75%.
- 2015, Peter Distelzweig, Benjamin Goldberg, Evan R. Ragland, Early Modern Medicine and Natural Philosophy[2]:
- “The primary difference between blood-particles, and the aereous particles and spirits, is size.”