Definition of Mesarch

1. originating in a mesic habitat [adj]

Lexicographical Neighbors of Mesarch

mesal
mesalamine
mesalliance
mesalliances
mesally
mesamboid
mesameboid
mesangial
mesangial cell
mesangial nephritis
mesangial proliferative glomerulonephritis
mesaortitis
mesaraic
mesarch (current term)
mesareic
mesarteritis
mesas
mesaticephalic
mesaticephalous
mesatipellic
mesatipellic pelvis
mesaxon
mescal
mescal bean
mescal beans
mescalin

Literary usage of Mesarch

Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:

1. Botanical Gazette by University of Chicago, JSTOR (Organization) (1902)
"most ancient of the conifer group), the mesarch structure of the bundle is as ... As regards these two latter groups, the writer regards their mesarch ..."

2. The Origin of a Land Flora: A Theory Based Upon the Facts of Alternation by Frederick Orpen Bower (1908)
"But Boodle points out that locally a mesarch position may be found in Psilotum also, and he concludes that both genera might be referred to a common parent ..."

3. The Anatomy of Woody Plants by Edward Charles Jeffrey (1917)
"Likewise in the case of mesarch structure the situation is first ... Later in geological time and in still higher types the mesarch condition in turn gives ..."

4. The New International Encyclopaedia by Herbert Treadwell Wade (1922)
"Exarch strands are the most primitive, occurring in all roots and in the stems of the more primitive pteridophytes (as club mosses) ; mesarch strands are ..."

5. Report of the Annual Meeting (1907)
"The two cotyledons each contain a single collateral bundle, which is, in some cases, slightly mesarch. A section of the axi?, taken through the cotyledonary ..."

6. A Textbook of Botany for Colleges and Universities by John Merle Coulter, Charles Reid Barnes, Henry Chandler Cowles (1910)
"mesarch bundles are very characteristic of ferns, and all of the four kinds of bundles described above as occurring among ferns are prevailingly ..."

7. Morphology of Angiosperms: (Morphology of Spermatophytes. Part II) by John Merle Coulter, Charles Joseph Chamberlain (1903)
"The leaf-traces were mesarch like those of the Cycads, ... Evidences of mesarch structure are accordingly comparatively scanty. The bundles of the stem are ..."

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