ligneous

• Moving about freely (aus freien Stucken), on its own head [de son propre chef], with a movement of its head but that controls its whole body, from head to toe, ligneous and dematerialised, the Table-Thing appears to be at the principle, at the beginning, and at the controls of itself. —  CRUSADER RABBIT
• The stalk soon becomes ligneous, and in time acquires considerable thickness. —  The History of Sumatra Containing An Account Of The Government, Laws, Customs And Manners Of The Native Inhabitants
• Therefore combinations of these fibers in any composition of non-amylaceous fiber (ligneous or woody fiber) will be dissolved, leaving the latter unharmed; the woody fibers remaining will prove suitable objects for examination under the microscope COTTON MIXED WITH LINEN Again, it might be important to know whether a certain pulp or composition contained flax in combination with cotton. —  Scientific American Supplement, No. 530, February 27, 1886
• G. An examination of the transverse section shows us the endogenous structure, as we find it also in various other drugs (sarsaparilla, etc.), namely, a nucleus sheath, inclosing the fibrovascular bundles and pith, and surrounded by a peri-ligneous or peri-nuclear portion, consisting of soft-walled parenchyma cells, loosely arranged with many small, irregularly triangular, intercellular spaces in the tranverse section. —  Scientific American Supplement, No. 497, July 11, 1885
• The first tegument is osseous or ligneous, triangular, tuberculated on its exterior surface, and of the colour of cinnamon. —  Personal Narrative of Travels to the Equinoctial Regions of America, During the Year 1799-1804 — Volume 2

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