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root hair

part of a plant. any of the hollow hairlike outgrowths of the outer cells of a root, just behind the tip, that absorb water and salts from the soil
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root hair

Summary

root hair is a plant structure[1]. It draws 73 Wikipedia views per month (plant_structure category, ranking #38 of 119).[2]

Key Facts

  • root hair's instance of is recorded as plant structure[3].
  • root hair's Commons category is recorded as Root hairs[4].
  • root hair's Freebase ID is recorded as /m/03gq40j[5].
  • root hair's Encyclopædia Britannica Online ID is recorded as science/root-hair[6].
  • root hair's JSTOR topic ID is recorded as root-hairs[7].
  • root hair's Microsoft Academic ID is recorded as 53161047[8].
  • root hair's OpenAlex ID is recorded as C53161047[9].

Why It Matters

root hair draws 73 Wikipedia views per month (plant_structure category, ranking #38 of 119).[2] It has Wikipedia articles in 15 language editions, a strong signal of global cultural recognition.[10] It is known by 13 alternative names across languages and contexts.[11]

References

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Direct Wikidata claims

  1. [3] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  2. [4] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  3. [5] ↑ . Freebase Data Dumps. wikidata.org.
  4. [6] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  5. [7] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  6. [8] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  7. [9] ↑ . OpenAlex. Retrieved . docs.openalex.org. Provenance: wikidata.org.

Class ancestry

  1. [1] ↑ . Wikidata. wikidata.org.

Aggregate / graph-position facts

  1. [2] ↑ . Wikimedia Foundation. dumps.wikimedia.org.
  2. [10] ↑ . Wikidata sitelinks. wikidata.org.
  3. [11] ↑ . Wikidata aliases. wikidata.org.

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