Airshoot

Quick meaning: Airshoot is a noun meaning (architecture) A channel for providing ventilation.

Meaning

(architecture) A channel for providing ventilation.

More Meanings

1. (botany) A filiform shoot of a water plant that floats on the surface of the water and contains bract-like organs.
2. (botany) A root-like structure that runs along the surface of the ground, putting down roots at a distance as a form of propagation.
3. (rare, weaponry) A shot at something that is in the air, or a shot in midair.

Example Sentences

Its special characteristic is that the mihrab has three airshoots leading air into windows.

Each transformer has a sheet-iron case, connected to an airshoot which discharges the warm air outside the building.

At the end of the vegetation period not only the flower-bearing airshoot, but also smaller or greater parts of the purely vegetative stems die away.

The impressive results: naval gunfire support qualification achieved an 86.3 average, scoring 100 in two surface gunnery shoots , and a 95 grade for an airshoot.

Word Forms

• airshoots

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