Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun In botany, same as
hypoderma - noun In arthropods, an epithelial integumentary layer below the cuticular or chitinized crust.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- noun (Biol.) Same as
hypoblast .
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- noun The
hypodermis .
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Examples
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His voice carried as much energy as a hypoderm of sedative, and he made a shuffling sound when he walked.
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Leaves in fascicles of 5, the sheath deciduous, the two dermal tissues distinct, the hypoderm-cells uniform.
The Genus Pinus George Russell Shaw 1892
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Leaves in fascicles of 2 to 5, from 15 to 22 cm. long; resin-ducts internal, hypoderm biform, endoderm with thin outer walls.
The Genus Pinus George Russell Shaw 1892
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Leaves in fascicles of 2, from 9 to 12 cm. long; resin-ducts medial, hypoderm weak, sometimes of a single row, biform when of two rows, endoderm with thin outer walls.
The Genus Pinus George Russell Shaw 1892
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Such partitions are sometimes met in other species, P. P.inglei or P. canariensis, where the hypoderm is abundant.
The Genus Pinus George Russell Shaw 1892
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Leaves in fascicles of 2 and 3, or more in its southern range, from 12 to 25 cm. long; resin-ducts internal, hypoderm biform, endoderm with thin outer walls.
The Genus Pinus George Russell Shaw 1892
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Leaves binate, from 9 to 16 cm. long, the epiderm thick, hypoderm conspicuous, resin-ducts medial.
The Genus Pinus George Russell Shaw 1892
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Leaves in fascicles of 3, the sheath persistent, from 20 to 30 cm. long; the hypoderm often in large masses, the resin-ducts external, the endoderm with thin outer walls.
The Genus Pinus George Russell Shaw 1892
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Leaves binate, sometimes ternate, from 15 to 30 cm. long, rigid, erect; hypoderm of uniform thick-walled cells; resin-ducts of remarkable size, septal, or not quite touching the endoderm and technically external.
The Genus Pinus George Russell Shaw 1892
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Leaves ternate, from 12 to 20 cm. long; resin-ducts medial or medial and internal, hypoderm biform.
The Genus Pinus George Russell Shaw 1892
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