manoxylic

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English

Adjective

manoxylic (not comparable)

  1. (botany, of wood) Sparse, with much pith and cortex, and having wide parenchymatous rays.
    Coordinate term: pycnoxylic
    • 1991, Transactions of the Royal Society of Edinburgh: Earth sciences, page 122:
      The significance of pycnoxylic versus manoxylic organisation of wood is still not well understood. Pycnoxylic wood is a primitive feature of progymnosperms with regard to manoxylic wood with wide and high rays.
    • 2007, C. M. Govil, Gymnosperms Extinct and Extant, page 22:
      Initially, the family included only one stem genus of Calamopitys but later as many as seven stem genera, namely, Calamopitys, Stenomyelon, Diichnia with manoxylic wood []