Definitions
American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Edition
- n. One of the small, corky pores or narrow lines on the surface of the stems of woody plants that allow the interchange of gases between the interior tissue and the surrounding air.
Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia
- n. In botany, a lens-shaped body of cells formed in the periderm or corky layer of bark, which by its enlargement soon ruptures the epidermis, or the older corky layers where such are present. Outwardly lenticels appear in the earliest stage merely as brighter spots, then as oval warts, becoming two-lipped; while in some plants they widen with the growth of the stem into transverse striæ. They are produced either beneath a stoma or group of stomata or independently. Their intercellular spaces are in communication with the outer air, and they thus serve the purpose of cortical pores, which name they sometimes bear. The outer (not corky) cells of a lenticel are termed packing or complementary cells; the inner (corky) cells have been called
phelloderm . Lenticels occur on the great majority of stems which produce bark in annular layers, also on the footstalks of many ferns. - n. In anatomy, one of the small mucous crypts or follicles of the base of the tongue having the shape of a lentil; a lenticular gland.
Wiktionary
- n. One of the small, oval, rounded spots upon the stem or branch of a plant, from which the underlying tissues may protrude or roots may issue, either in the air, or more commonly when the stem or branch is covered with water or earth.
- n. A small, lens-shaped gland on the under side of some leaves.
GNU Webster's 1913
- n. One of the small, oval, rounded spots upon the stem or branch of a plant, from which the underlying tissues may protrude or roots may issue, either in the air, or more commonly when the stem or branch is covered with water or earth.
- n. A small, lens-shaped gland on the under side of some leaves.
WordNet 3.0
- n. one of many raised pores on the stems of woody plants that allow the interchange of gas between the atmosphere and the interior tissue
Etymologies
- From French lenticelle, from Latin lens (Wiktionary)
- New Latin lenticella, diminutive of lēns, lent-, lens; see lens. (American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Edition)
Examples
“It was a lenticel, a characteristic preparation from the elder-tree.”
“Hill watched the clock hands until two minutes remained; then he opened the book of answers, and, with hot ears and an affectation of ease, gave his drawing of the lenticel its name.”
Lists
These user-created lists contain the word ‘lenticel’.
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misc. plant morphology
the concise british flora in colour (w. keble martin) - glossary - edited, and to be added to
whorled, viviparous, vittae, viscid, villous, valvate, unarmed, umbellate, umbel, tubercle, triquetrous, trigonous and 135 more...
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It Has a Name??
Yes. Yes it does.
aglet, armsaye, scroop, rowel, ferrule, rasceta, chanking, philtrum, frenulum, keeper, agelast, punt and 285 more...
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bloodworm's list
These are words that I enjoy because they are unique, rare, long, or just cool.
circumlocution, hysteresis, schadenfreude, quixotic, loquacious, ennui, sesquipedalian, defenestrate, obfuscate, syzygy, ubiquitous, superfluous and 231 more...
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iRosaceae
An ode to apples. I am much indebted to 'Wild Apples' which, though probably not likely to change your life and improve your productivity at the sausage factory, will enthrall you with half an hou...
rosaceae, apple, maelon, crab, jonathon, eden, temptation, clan lamont, eye, sward, pomona, granny smith and 135 more...
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Biology
malacological, cladistic, phenetic, phylogenetic, taxonomy, bathypelagic, superfamily, superorder, infraorder, binomen, binominal, quorum sensing and 199 more...
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richardr's Words
marmoreal, osteology, tyromancy, metalepsis, idioglossia, tapinosis, epicaricacy, carromancy, rogation, senex, aulic, gemütlichkeit and 279 more...
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Meesh's list
psithurism, pejorative, apricity, tittle, glabella, obdormition, harp, sussurus, sussuration, suspirate, suspiration, eructation and 65 more...
Tweets
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chained_bear This word still makes me think of Lent and cellulose acetate. Or lentils. Apr 10, 2008
reesetee Duly noted, c_b, and thanks, mollusque. Apr 3, 2008
mollusque Could be lenticel breakdown, an emerging disease of apples. Apr 3, 2008
bilby Hmmm. What about the slightly larger marks that look like beauty spots? Are they lenticels or something else? Where's our resident Rosacean when we need him/her? Apr 3, 2008
chained_bear I think this has to go on reesetee's "It Has a Name?" list. Apr 3, 2008
mollusque The little dots on fruits such as apples are lenticels. Apr 3, 2008