Definition of Mesophyl

1. the soft tissue of a leaf [n -S]

Lexicographical Neighbors of Mesophyl

mesopauses
mesopelagic
mesopexy
mesophanerophyte
mesophanerophytes
mesophase
mesophases
mesophil
mesophile
mesophiles
mesophilic
mesophlebitis
mesophlum
mesophragma
mesophryon
mesophyl (current term)
mesophylic
mesophyll
mesophylla
mesophyllic
mesophyllous
mesophylls
mesophyllum
mesophyls
mesophyron
mesophyte
mesophytes
mesophytic
mesophytic plant
mesopic

Literary usage of Mesophyl

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

1. The Microscopy of Vegetable Foods: With Special Reference to the Detection by Andrew Lincoln Winton, Josef Moeller, Kate Grace Barber Winton (1916)
"The mesophyl in the under part of the leaf forms a spongy parenchyma, (Fig. u, ... Chlorophyl grains are present in all the mesophyl cells, but are most ..."

2. The Microscopy of Technical Products by Thomas Franz Hanausek (1907)
"The remainder of the mesophyl consists of rounded cells with intercellular spaces. ... Distributed among the mesophyl cells are procambium bundles (Fig. ..."

3. Proceedings of the American Pharmaceutical Association at the Annual Meeting by American Pharmaceutical Association, National Pharmaceutical Convention (1897)
"In a cross-section they form an almost unbroken line parallel with the surface of the leaf and lying between the palisade-cells and the mesophyl proper. ..."

4. Proceedings of the American Pharmaceutical Association at the Annual Meeting by American Pharmaceutical Association, National Pharmaceutical Convention, American Pharmaceutical Association Meeting (1897)
"In a cross-section they form an almost unbroken line parallel with the surface of the leaf and lying between the palisade-cells and the mesophyl proper. ..."

5. Torreya by Torrey Botanical Club (1915)
"Walls of the mesophyl not intruded. Stomata present on one side only. Stomata present on all sides. Leaf strongly 4-angled; bundle-sheath conspicuous. ..."

6. A Course in Food Analysis by Andrew Lincoln Winton (1917)
"Cross section of leaf, iep lower epidermis with / hair and i/o stoma; mes mesophyl with chlorophyl grains, large stone cell, and cr calcium oxalate rosette; ..."

7. Education Through Nature Study by John P. Munson (1903)
"Porous mesophyl 1. Flat and expanded surface 2. Cut or divided 4. Petiole lengthened 3. ... Stomata I'' 13« Expanded surface Stomata Spongy mesophyl II. ..."

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