Usually means: Water vapor loss from plants.
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  1. transpiration: Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
  2. transpiration: Merriam-Webster
  3. transpiration: Oxford Learner's Dictionaries
  4. transpiration: American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language
  5. transpiration: Collins English Dictionary
  6. transpiration: Vocabulary.com
  7. Transpiration, transpiration: Wordnik
  8. transpiration: Cambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary
  9. Transpiration: InfoVisual Visual Dictionary
  10. transpiration: Wiktionary
  11. transpiration: Webster's New World College Dictionary, 4th Ed.
  12. transpiration: Infoplease Dictionary
  13. transpiration: Dictionary.com
  14. Transpiration: Wikipedia, the Free Encyclopedia
  15. Transpiration: Online Plain Text English Dictionary
  16. transpiration: Webster's Revised Unabridged, 1913 Edition
  17. transpiration: Rhymezone
  18. Transpiration, transpiration (f): AllWords.com Multi-Lingual Dictionary
  19. transpiration: Webster's 1828 Dictionary
  20. transpiration: FreeDictionary.org
  21. transpiration: Mnemonic Dictionary
  22. transpiration: TheFreeDictionary.com

Business (1 matching dictionary)
  1. transpiration: Legal dictionary

Computing (1 matching dictionary)
  1. transpiration: Encyclopedia

Medicine (4 matching dictionaries)
  1. transpiration: Merriam-Webster Medical Dictionary
  2. Dorland's Illustrated Medical Dictionary (No longer online)
  3. online medical dictionary (No longer online)
  4. transpiration: Medical dictionary

Science (4 matching dictionaries)
  1. Transpiration: Solar Radiation Resource Terms
  2. Botanical Terms (No longer online)
  3. GreenWeb Gardening Glossary (No longer online)
  4. Weather Glossary (No longer online)

Tech (6 matching dictionaries)
  1. Glossary of Meteorology (No longer online)
  2. Lake and Water Word Glossary (No longer online)
  3. National Weather Service Glossary (No longer online)
  4. Transpiration: Science In Your Watershed: Hydrologic Definitions
  5. Water-Science Glossary of Terms (No longer online)
  6. Glossary of Water Resource Terms (No longer online)

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Definitions from Wiktionary (
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American English Definition British English Definition
noun:  (botany) The loss of water by evaporation in terrestrial plants, especially through the stomata; accompanied by a corresponding uptake from the roots.
noun:  (physiology) The process of giving off water vapour through the skin or mucous membranes.
noun:  The passage of gases through fine tubes.

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