Guttation vs Dew - What's the difference?
guttation | dew |
(botany) The exudation of drops of water from the leaves of some vascular plants as a result of root pressure.
(uncountable) moisture in the air that settles on plants, etc in the morning, resulting in drops.
(countable, but see usage notes) an instance of a such moisture settling on plants, etc.
(uncountable) Any moisture from the atmosphere condensed by cool bodies upon their surfaces.
(figurative) Anything that falls lightly and in a refreshing manner.
* Shakespeare
An emblem of morning, or fresh vigour.
* Longfellow
To wet with, or as if with, dew; to moisten.
* A. B. Saxton
As nouns the difference between guttation and dew
is that guttation is the exudation of drops of water from the leaves of some vascular plants as a result of root pressure while dew is moisture in the air that settles on plants, etc in the morning, resulting in drops.As a verb dew is
to wet with, or as if with, dew; to moisten.As an acronym DEW is
distant Early Warning.guttation
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Noun
(wikipedia guttation) (-)dew
English
(wikipedia dew)Noun
- There was a heavy dew this morning.
- The golden dew of sleep.
- The dew of his youth.
Usage notes
* Although the countable sense is still used, the plural form is now archaic or poetic only.Synonyms
* (moisture settling on plants) (obsolete)Verb
(en verb)- The grasses grew / A little ranker since they dewed them so.