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Definition of Protoxylems
1. protoxylem [n] - See also: protoxylem
Lexicographical Neighbors of Protoxylems
Literary usage of Protoxylems
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Proceedings of the Royal Society of Edinburgh by Royal Society of Edinburgh (1900)
"In the transition region, after the split protoxylems have turned towards the
centre of the cylinder, and the stele consists of four double stem bundles ..."
2. Report of the Annual Meeting (1907)
"... in such a manner that two neighbouring protoxylems become exarch, fuse, and
occupy positions alternating with those taken up by the phloem groups. ..."
3. The Origin of a Land Flora: A Theory Based Upon the Facts of Alternation by Frederick Orpen Bower (1908)
"... Jones has found that though in shoots with simple leaf-arrangement it is usual
for the protoxylems to correspond to the leaf-insertions, still, ..."
4. The Structure and Life-history of the Hay-scented Fern by Henry Shoemaker Conard (1908)
"protoxylems abut directly upon the pericycle at diametrically opposite points,
... Midway between the protoxylems and lying against the pericycle is the ..."
5. The Structure and Development of Mosses and Ferns (Archegoniatae). by Douglas Houghton Campbell (1905)
"The number of protoxylems in most species is two, but there may be accessory ones.
The cortex is composed in most species of delicate parenchyma, ..."
6. The Eusporangiatae: The Comparative Morphology of the Ophioglossaceae and by Douglas Houghton Campbell (1911)
"... are composed of a large group of tracheids, of which the two or three smaller
ones next the pericycle represent the protoxylems. ..."
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