Definition of Sclereids

1. sclereid [n] - See also: sclereid

Lexicographical Neighbors of Sclereids

scleral spur
scleral staphyloma
scleral sulcus
scleral veins
scleralization
scleralizations
scleras
sclere
sclerectasia
sclerectomy
scleredema
scleredema adultorum
scleregenous
sclereid
sclereids (current term)
sclerema
sclerema adiposum
sclerema neonatorum
scleremas
sclerencephaly
sclerenchymas
sclerenchymatous
sclerenchyme
scleres
sclereskeleton
scleriasis
sclerite
sclerites

Literary usage of Sclereids

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

1. A Textbook of Botany for Colleges and Universities by John Merle Coulter, Charles Reid Barnes, Henry Chandler Cowles (1911)
"Representative sclerenchyma cells or sclereids are mechanical cells that cannot be ... The most characteristic sclereids are the hard, stiff, and relatively ..."

2. Introduction to the Analysis of Drugs and Medicines: An Elementary Handbook by Burt Everette Nelson (1910)
"Cork cells absent or scanty, long white sclereids, 20-30 x. 250-500 microns, very few stone cells, characteristic odor due to volatile oil. ..."

3. Introduction to the Analysis of Drugs and Medicines: An Elementary Handbook by Burt Everette Nelson (1910)
"Cork cells absent or scanty, long white sclereids, 20-30 x 250-500 microns, ... A. Prisms, mostly in rows attached to the bast fibers or long sclereids a. ..."

4. A Textbook of Botany for Colleges and Universities by John Merle Coulter, Charles Reid Barnes, Henry Chandler Cowles (1911)
"The most characteristic sclereids are the hard, stiff, and relatively ... 957) may be classed with sclereids. The rigidity of stems is not due entirely to ..."

5. Proceedings of the American Pharmaceutical Association at the Annual Meeting by American Pharmaceutical Association, National Pharmaceutical Convention (1900)
"acteristic sclereids and bast fibers of this part of the fruit are in evidence. Bast fibers are conspicuous features in the powder; when unbroken, ..."

6. The Principles of Pharmacognosy: An Introduction to the Study of the Crude by Friedrich August Flückiger, Alexander Tschirch (1887)
"At the right of the.figure are sclereids, isolated by maceration ... The function of the sclereids, which are so characteristic of tea-leaves (Fig. ..."

7. A Glossary of Botanic Terms, with Their Derivation and Accent by Benjamin Daydon Jackson (1905)
"... an infusion), (1) formerly applied to stone-cells, sclereids; ... sclero'tlc, hardened, stony in texture ; ~ Cells, grit-cells or sclereids ..."

8. Proceedings of the American Pharmaceutical Association at the Annual Meeting by American Pharmaceutical Association, National Pharmaceutical Convention (1901)
"sclereids found in fruit stalk. Cross section. 28, 29. sclereids found in longitudinal section of fruit stalk. School of Pharmacy, University of Michigan, ..."

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