Definition of Lenticels

1. Noun. (plural of lenticel) ¹

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Definition of Lenticels

1. lenticel [n] - See also: lenticel

Lexicographical Neighbors of Lenticels

lent an ear
lent lily
lental
lentamente
lentando
lente insulin
lenten
lenten rose
lenti
lentic
lenticel
lenticellame
lenticellate
lenticelle
lenticelles
lenticels (current term)
lenticle
lenticles
lenticonus
lenticula
lenticular
lenticular ansa
lenticular apophysis
lenticular astigmatism
lenticular bone
lenticular capsule
lenticular cloud
lenticular clouds
lenticular colony
lenticular fasciculus

Literary usage of Lenticels

Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:

1. Histology of Medicinal Plants by William Mansfield (1916)
"lenticels lenticels are small openings occurring in the bark of plants. The lenticels bear the same relationship to the stem that the ..."

2. Trees: A Handbook of Forest-botany for the Woodlands and the Laboratory by Harry Marshall Ward, Percy Groom (1904)
"LEAF-SOARS AND lenticels. Marks on winter twigs—Buds and leaf-scars—Sizes of terminal buds—Aborted buds and pseudo-terminal ..."

3. The Elements of Vegetable Histology by Charles William Ballard (1921)
"lenticels.—lenticels are respiratory openings in the periderm or corky ... lenticels are not mere chance fissures in the bark, but are formed from the ..."

4. Transactions of the Kansas Academy of Science by Kansas Academy of Science (1908)
"Likewise, the older lenticels appeared to have the freest passage for air. ... In several cases open and closed lenticels of a species were marked, ..."

5. Plant Anatomy from the Standpoint of the Development and Functions of the by William Chase Stevens (1916)
"The lenticels.—In stems where the epidermis is being replaced by cork the ... The formation of lenticels outruns that of the cork tissue, so that when the ..."

6. Physiological Botany by George Lincoln Goodale (1885)
"lenticels are peculiar breaks in the continuity of the periderm of dicotyledons. ... According to Stahl,1 there are two types of lenticels: 1. ..."

7. Handbook of Practical Botany for the Botanical Laboratory and Private Student by Eduard Strasburger, William Hillhouse (1900)
"CORK—lenticels—BARK. PRINCIPAL MATERIALS USED. ... in order to study on the one hand the lenticels, and on the other hand the structure and reactions of the ..."

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