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Stomata vs Pores - What's the difference?

stomata | pores |

As nouns the difference between stomata and pores

is that stomata is while pores is .

As a verb pores is

(pore).

stomata

English

Noun

(head)
  • (stoma)

  • stoma

    English

    Noun

    (wikipedia stoma) (en-noun)
  • (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.
  • pores

    English

    Noun

    (head)
  • * {{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.}}

    Verb

    (head)
  • (pore)
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