Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun In botany, the lignifying matter which is deposited on the inner surface of the cells of some plants, contributing to their thickness, as in the shell of the walnut; lignin.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- noun (Bot.) The thickening matter of woody cells; lignin.
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- noun botany The
thickening matter ofwoody cells ;lignin .
Etymologies
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Ancient Greek hard + -gen.
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Examples
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In many plants -- such as trees -- in a certain stage of development, the substance lining the cells is very hard, and is termed _lignin_, or _sclerogen_.
The Stock-Feeder's Manual the chemistry of food in relation to the breeding and feeding of live stock Charles Alexander Cameron 1875
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The results of this inquiry are of importance, seeing that they clearly prove that even the hardest kind of cellulose -- _sclerogen_, in fact -- is capable of being assimilated by the
The Stock-Feeder's Manual the chemistry of food in relation to the breeding and feeding of live stock Charles Alexander Cameron 1875
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