Definition of Libriform

1. a. Having the form of liber, or resembling liber.

Definition of Libriform

1. Adjective. (botany) Resembling or having the form of liber, or bast. ¹

¹ Source: wiktionary.com

Definition of Libriform

1. [adj]

Medical Definition of Libriform

1. Having the form of liber, or resembling liber. Libriform cells, peculiar wood cells which are very slender and relatively thick-walled, and occasionally are furnished with bordered pits. Origin: Liber. Source: Websters Dictionary (01 Mar 1998)

Lexicographical Neighbors of Libriform

librates
librating
libration
librational
librations
libratious
libratory
libre
libretti
librettist
librettists
libretto
librettos
libri
libricide
libriform (current term)
librigena
librigenae
librigenal
librocubicularist
librul
libs
libtard
libtards
libya
licecide
licecides
licence
licence to crenellate

Literary usage of Libriform

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

1. Elements of Plant Anatomy by Emily Lovira Gregory (1895)
"In many instances, however, they resemble the libriform cells in size, length, and pointed ends, and in the tendency to thicker walls than those of the ..."

2. Explorations in Turkestan, Expedition of 1904: Prehistoric Civilizations of by Raphael Pumpelly (1908)
"Plicated libriform occurs also. The wood was therefore of a hard variety and ... The occurrence of the inclosed pores in libriform and the plication of the ..."

3. Systematic Anatomy of the Dicotyledons: A Handbook for Laboratories of Pure by Hans Solereder (1908)
"... simple- or bordered-pitted libriform and the septate libriform, which according to Sanio constitute a system in the wood, comparable to the bast-fibres ..."

4. The Natural History of Plants: Their Forms, Growth, Reproduction, and by Francis Wall Oliver, Anton Kerner von Marilaun, Marian (Balfour) Busk (1895)
"It cannot be said that hard bast and libriform fibres are more important than ... The hard bast, libriform cells, and collenchyma which are comprehended ..."

5. The Anatomy of Woody Plants by Edward Charles Jeffrey (1917)
"In certain Rosaceae the transition from fiber-tracheid to libriform fiber may ... The interpretation of the libriform fiber most in accord at once with the ..."

6. Gray's Botanical Text-book by Asa Gray (1885)
"libriform cells are variable in length in different plants ; some of the shortest occurring ... Septate libriform cells have sometimes been confounded with ..."

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