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Definition of Outgrowths
1. outgrowth [n] - See also: outgrowth
Lexicographical Neighbors of Outgrowths
Literary usage of Outgrowths
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Proceedings of the Cambridge Philosophical Society by Cambridge Philosophical Society (1900)
"Of these five, the three lower had outgrowths only on the under side, and the
two upper ... Of the remaining three leaves two had slight outgrowths above, ..."
2. Structural Botany: Or Organography on the Basis of Morphology. To which is by Asa Gray (1879)
"Between this and the production by an organ of appendages, or outgrowths of little
or no morphological signification, there are manj- gradations; ..."
3. Rhodora by New England Botanical Club (1903)
"FOLIAR outgrowths FROM THE SURFACE OF THE LEAF OF ARISTOLOCHIA SIPHO. ... 2),
from which, on the under surface of the leaf, the outgrowths in question arise ..."
4. Annual Report by Illinois Farmers' Institute (1916)
"... outgrowths from knots, roughened places, or wounds, by undermining the bark
and boring into the wood. ..."
5. The Diseases of the prostate: Their Pathology and Treatment; Comprising the by Henry Thompson (1868)
"SIMPLE TUMOURS AND outgrowths FROM THE PROSTATE. —In considering both the external
characters and the intimate structures of the hypertrophied prostate, ..."
6. Organography of Plants, Especially of the Archegoniata and Spermaphyta by Karl Goebel, Isaac Bayley Balfour (1905)
"... placed alongside of the complex auricles of the Hepaticae are unknown. (b] IN
THE CONSTRUCTION OF THE LEAF. i. By outgrowths of the leaf-surface:— (a) ..."
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