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Definition of Alburnous
1. a. Of or pertaining to alburnum; of the alburnum; as, alburnous substances.
Definition of Alburnous
1. Adjective. Of or pertaining to alburnum. ¹
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Definition of Alburnous
1. [adj]
Lexicographical Neighbors of Alburnous
Literary usage of Alburnous
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Chymistry Applied to Agriculture by R H Mottram, Jean-Antoine-Claude Chaptal, Humphry Davy, Marc-Antoine Puvis, James Renwick (1845)
"On the organization of plants—Of the roots, trunk, ana branches—Of their structure—Of
the epidermis—Of the cortical and alburnous parts—Of leaves, flowers, ..."
2. A Selection from the Physiological and Horticultural Papers by Thomas Andrew Knight (1841)
"ON THE INVERTED ACTION OF THE alburnous VESSELS OF TREES. [Read before the ROYAL
SOCIETY, May 15, 1806.] I HAVE endeavoured to prove, in several memoirs* ..."
3. Philosophical Transactions by Royal Society (Great Britain) (1805)
"when the roots were considerably elongated, alburnous tubes formed; and as soon
as they had acquired some degree of firmness in their consistence, ..."
4. Abstracts of the Papers Printed in the Philosophical Transactions of the by Royal Society (Great Britain) (1832)
"In the succulent shoot of the horse-chestnut it may be seen, that the alburnous
tubes are arranged in ridges beneath the cortical vessels, and the number of ..."
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