Stomata vs Pores - What's the difference?
stomata | pores |
(stoma)
(botany) One of the tiny pores in the epidermis of a leaf or stem through which gases and water vapor pass.
A small opening in a membrane; a surgically constructed opening, especially one in the abdominal wall that permits the passage of waste after a colostomy or ileostomy.
(zoology) A mouthlike opening, such as the oral cavity of a nematode.
An artificial anus.
* {{quote-book, year=1879 , title=The Telephone, the Microphone and the Phonograph
, author=Th Du Moncel , page=166 , publisher=Harper
, passage=He takes the prepared charcoal used by artists, brings it to a white heat, and suddenly plunges it in a bath of mercury, of which the globules instantly penetrate the pores of charcoal, and may be said to metallize it.}}
(pore)