Usually means: Aerial root for gas exchange.
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  1. pneumatophore: Merriam-Webster
  2. pneumatophore: Oxford Learner's Dictionaries
  3. pneumatophore: American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language
  4. pneumatophore: Collins English Dictionary
  5. pneumatophore: Vocabulary.com
  6. pneumatophore: Wordnik
  7. pneumatophore: Wiktionary
  8. pneumatophore: Webster's New World College Dictionary, 4th Ed.
  9. pneumatophore: Infoplease Dictionary
  10. pneumatophore: Dictionary.com
  11. pneumatophore: Webster's Revised Unabridged, 1913 Edition
  12. pneumatophore: Rhymezone
  13. Pneumatophore: AllWords.com Multi-Lingual Dictionary
  14. pneumatophore: FreeDictionary.org
  15. pneumatophore: Mnemonic Dictionary
  16. pneumatophore: TheFreeDictionary.com
  17. Pneumatophore: Wikipedia, the Free Encyclopedia
  18. Pneumatophore: Online Plain Text English Dictionary

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  1. pneumatophore: Encyclopedia

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Definitions from Wiktionary (pneumatophore)

noun:  (zoology) A gas-filled sac or float of some colonial marine coelenterates, such as the Portuguese man-of-war.
noun:  (botany) An aerial root, in mangroves etc., specialized for gaseous exchange.
noun:  An apparatus consisting of a bag with a tube and mouthpiece, which may be attached to the body. The bag contains oxygen to be breathed by the wearer in rescue work in mines, etc.

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