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turgor

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6 lettersPart of speech nounSorted gorrtuStarts with TEnds with R0 clues
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Definitions

  1. The firm pressure of fluid inside a cell or tissue.

Word origin

Learned borrowing from Latin turgor, from turgēre (“to be swollen”) + -or (forms a third-declension masculine abstract noun from a verb root).

Used in a sentence

  • Cuttings in a vase lost their turgor, incapable of drawing up the water and nutrients that once kept them supple.

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