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名詞

turgor (countable and uncountable, plural turgors)

1. Turgidity.

   Synonyms: tumescence, turgescence, turgidity, tumidity; see also Thesaurus:swollenness

2. (physics) The pressure produced by a solution in a space that is enclosed by a differentially permeable membrane.
3. (botany) Turgor pressure is the force or pressure within the cell exerted by fluid that presses the cell membrane against the cell wall.
   • 2024 May 10, Lily Stewart, “A love letter to lilacs and the joys of fleeting pleasure”, in The Christian Science Monitor:

     Cuttings in a vase lost their turgor, incapable of drawing up the water and nutrients that once kept them supple.

派生語

• turgor pressure

発音

• (Classical Latin) IPA: [ˈtʊr.ɡɔr]
• (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA: [ˈtur.ɡor]

名詞

turgor m (genitive turgōris); third declension

1. swelling
2. turgidity, bombast

語形変化

Third-declension noun.

関連する語

派生した語

• → English: turgor
• → Italian: turgore
• → Portuguese: turgor

参照

• “turgor”, in Gaffiot, Félix (1934), Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette.
• “turgor”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879), A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press