aereous

English[edit]

aereous (comparative more aereous, superlative most aereous)

Resembling or consisting of air.
- 2014, Joost T van Dongen, Francesco Licausi, Low-Oxygen Stress in Plants: Oxygen Sensing and Adaptive Responses to Hypoxia‎^[1]:
  It should be kept in mind that for horticultural crops, oxygen supply to the root mainly occurs through open, aereous pores in a substrate, which may be logged at water contents above approximately 75%.
- 2015, Peter Distelzweig, Benjamin Goldberg, Evan R. Ragland, Early Modern Medicine and Natural Philosophy‎^[2]:
  “The primary difference between blood-particles, and the aereous particles and spirits, is size.”