Definition of Protostelic

1. Adjective. Of or possessing a protostele. ¹

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Definition of Protostelic

1. [adj]

Lexicographical Neighbors of Protostelic

protosciences
protoscripture
protosilicate
protosilicates
protosolar
protosome
protosomes
protosomite
protosomites
protostane
protostanes
protostar
protostars
protostele
protosteles
protostelic (current term)
protostelid
protostelids
protostellar
protostomatous
protostome
protostomes
protostomian
protostomians
protostomous
protosulphide
protosulphides
protosulphuret
protosulphurets
protosyntactic

Literary usage of Protostelic

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

1. The Origin of a Land Flora: A Theory Based Upon the Facts of Alternation by Frederick Orpen Bower (1908)
"In both cases a prevalence of a cylindrical protostelic state, with comparatively slight disturbance of the axial system on departure of the leaf-traces, ..."

2. The Anatomy of Woody Plants by Edward Charles Jeffrey (1917)
"207 illustrates the organization of the protostelic axis of the genus ... The fibrovascular apparatus consists of protostelic primary wood surrounded by a ..."

3. Science by American Association for the Advancement of Science (1901)
"... makes the latter the protostelic ancestors of the former. An acceptance of these conclusions would carry our knowledge of the phylum back to Lower ..."

4. The American Naturalist by American Society of Naturalists, Essex Institute (1908)
"... and in strictly acropetal order: a protostelic structure of the conducting system of the axis, and a leaf-trace composed of a single strand. ..."

5. The Structure and Development of Mosses and Ferns (Archegoniatae). by Douglas Houghton Campbell (1905)
"As the stem grows, the central stele, which at first is solid ("protostelic"), becomes a hollow cylinder ..."

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