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Definition of Pyrenes
1. pyrene [n] - See also: pyrene
Lexicographical Neighbors of Pyrenes
Literary usage of Pyrenes
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. The Standard Cyclopedia of Horticulture: A Discussion for the Amateur, and by Liberty Hyde Bailey (1917)
"It is a globose drupe, shaped something like an apple and contains five large "stones"
or bony pyrenes. The plant is a shrub 10 to 15 feet high. ..."
2. The Flora of British India by Joseph Dalton Hooker (1885)
"VITEX. ft Drupe with 4 pyrenes. (Leaves simple.) Calyx in flower large, ...
Fruit dividing into 4 pyrenes.—Trees or shrubs. Leaves simple. ..."
3. Flora australiensis: a description of the plants of the Australian territory. by George Bentham, Ferdinand von Mueller (1866)
"Ovules solitary or very rarely 2 collateral in each fruit or pyrenes always \-seeded.
cell of the ovary, rarefy several to each carpel separated by spurious ..."
4. Oil Spill Dispersants: Efficacy And Effects by National Research Council (U. S.) (2005)
"(2000) Naphthalene Fluoranthene Ci naphthalenes Pyrene C-2 naphthalenes Ci pyrenes
C-3 naphthalenes C-2 pyrenes C-4 naphthalenes C-3 pyrenes Biphenyl C-4 ..."
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