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alburnum
alburnum (ælˈbɜːnəm) [a. L. alburnum, f. alb-us white.] The whiter, softer, and more recently formed wood in exogenous trees, between the bark and heart-wood; the sap-wood.1664 Evelyn Silva (1776) 524 That whiter, softer, fatty part called by the antients Alburnum. 1791 E. Darwin Bot. Gard. i. 96 Sa...
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Bark (botany)
Periderm
Cork (phellem or suber), includes the rhytidome
Cork cambium (phellogen)
Phelloderm
Cortex
Phloem
Vascular cambium
Wood (xylem)
Sapwood (alburnum
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alburnous
alburnous, a. (ælˈbɜːnəs) [f. alburn-um + -ous.] Of, or of the nature of, alburnum.1803 Knight in Phil. Trans. XCIII. 289 Between the cortical and alburnous substances. 1814 Sir H. Davy Agric. Chem. 72 In bulbous roots, the alburnous substance forms the largest part of the vegetable.
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alburn
▪ I. alburn obs. form of auburn.▪ II. alburn (ˈælbɜːn) 1. = alburnum [of which it is an Eng. ad.]. 2. A fish; the Bleak [in L. alburnus on account of its silvery white appearance].1753 Chambers Cycl. Supp., Alburnus. [Alburn in mod. Dicts.]
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Iazyges
The Iazyges led an invasion into Alburnum in an attempt to seize its gold mines.
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lignum
▪ I. lignum1 (ˈlɪgnəm) [L. lignum wood.] ‖ 1. Bot. The wood of exogenous plants, comprising both alburnum and duramen.1826 Good Bk. Nat. I. 190 The whole of the liber of one year..becoming the alburnum of the next, and the alburnum becoming the lignum. 1866 in Treas. Bot. ‖ 2. Occurring, with qualif...
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duramen
‖ duramen Bot. (djʊˈreɪmɛn) [rare L. dūrāmen hardness; a hardened or ligneous vine-branch (Columella), f. dūrāre to harden.] The central wood or heart-wood of an exogenous tree.1837 Penny Cycl. IX. 205/1. 1839 Carpenter Princ. Gen. & Comp. Phys. §329 The deposition of the products of secretion which...
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sap-wood
ˈsap-wood [sap n.1] = alburnum.1791 E. Darwin Bot. Gard. i. Add. Notes 96 The placental vessels..are transformed from sap-wood..into inert wood. 1815 J. Smith Panorama Sci. & Art I. 258 Boards..free from..sap-wood. 1887 C. A. Moloney Forestry W. Afr. 353 A deep reddish-brown heartwood and light sap-...
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glaireous
glaireous, a. (ˈglɛəriːəs) Also 8–9 glareous, glairous. [f. glair n.1 + -eous. Cf. F. glaireux.] Having the nature or appearance of glair.1755 Johnson, Glareous. 1765 Univ. Mag. XXXVII. 146/2 There is a glareous liquor. 1806 Knight in Phil. Trans. XCVII. 104 A glareous fluid, as Du Hamel has stated,...
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plumelet
plumelet (ˈpluːmlɪt) [f. plume n. + -let.] † 1. Bot. = plumule 1. Obs.1816 Keith Phys. Bot. II. 17 The plumelet was still enveloped in the seminal leaves. Ibid. II. 224 But the fluid, which has been thus conducted to the radicle,..ascends..to the plumelet through the..tubes of the alburnum. 2. A min...
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blea
▪ I. blea, n. rare. (bliː) Also 8 ble(e. [Perh. from blea, blae a. in sense of ‘livid, pale.’] The young wood of a tree under the bark; the alburnum or white wood.1730–6 Bailey (fol.) Ble, Blea, Blee (in Chirurgery), the inward Bark of a Tree, or that Part of the wood, which was last form'd. 1753 Ch...
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soft-wood
soft wood, soft-wood Also as one word. [soft a.] 1. a. Wood which is relatively soft or easily cut; esp. coniferous trees or their timber. Also attrib.1832 Planting (L.U.K.) 77 The..discriminating characters of hard and of soft woods. 1857 Gray First Less. Bot. 147 In soft woods, such as White-Pine ...
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vigour
▪ I. vigour, n. (ˈvɪgə(r)) Forms: 4– vigour, 4–5 vigoure, 4–6 vygour, 6 vygure, vygueur, vigeur, 7 viger; 5 vigore, 6 vygor, 4–8, 9– U.S. vigor. [a. AF. vigur, vigour, OF. vigor (vigheur, etc.; later and mod.F. vigueur, = Pr., Sp., Pg. vigor, It. vigore), ad. L. vigōr-, vigor liveliness, activity, f...
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vascular
vascular, a. (ˈvæskjʊlə(r)) [ad. mod.L. vāsculār-is, f. L. vāscul-um, dim. of vās vas. So F. vasculaire, It. vasculare, Sp. and Pg. vascular.] 1. Bot. a. Of fibres, tissue, etc.: Having the form of tubular vessels; consisting of continuous tubes of simple membrane.1672–3 Grew Anat. Pl., Anat. Roots ...
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spine
▪ I. spine, n.1 (spaɪn) Also 5 spyne, spin. [ad. OF. espine (mod.F. épine, = Prov. espina, Sp. espina, Pg. espinha, It. spina), or directly ad. L. spīna thorn, prickle, backbone, etc.] I. 1. a. Bot. A stiff, sharp-pointed process produced or growing from the wood of a plant, consisting of a hardened...
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