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from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.
- adjective Of, relating to, or resembling cork or cork tissue.
from The Century Dictionary.
- In botany, slightly erose; appearing as if a little eaten or gnawed on the margin.
- Same as subereous, suberic.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- adjective (Bot.) Having a corky texture.
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- adjective botany Having a
corky texture.
Etymologies
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Examples
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If we refer to Fig. 13, which represents a radial vertical section running through the center of one of the scars that permitted the specimen to be determined, we shall observe, in fact, a tissue formed of rectangular cells, longer than wide, arranged in horizontal series, and very analogous in their aspect to those that we have described in the suberose region of the bark of Sigillariæ.
Scientific American Supplement, No. 481, March 21, 1885 Various
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In fact, with Numbers 1 and 2 the analysis was made solely of the wood, and with No. 3 only of the prosenchymatous and suberose parts of the bark.
Scientific American Supplement, No. 481, March 21, 1885 Various
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The portions of coal that contain impressions of the bark of Sigillaria and Lepidodendron allow the elongated, suberose tissue characteristic of such bark to be still more clearly seen.
Scientific American Supplement, No. 481, March 21, 1885 Various
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