English Explanatory Dictionary

imbibition theory

English dictionary entry

Meanings

noun
  1. The suggestion (by Julius von Sachs) that water ascended in plants by a chemical process in the cell walls, and not by actual passage upwards through vessels.

Word forms

imbibition theory
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