n. One of the paired cells in the epidermis of a plant that control the opening and closing of a stoma of a leaf.
The guard cells swell with water to open the stoma, allowing gas exchange.
stomatalcell; epidermal cell; plant cell
non-guardcell; subsidiary cell; root cell
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