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Definition of Alburnum
1. n. The white and softer part of wood, between the inner bark and the hard wood or duramen; sapwood.
Definition of Alburnum
1. Noun. sapwood; the thin white layer between the bark and wood of a tree ¹
¹ Source: wiktionary.com
Definition of Alburnum
1. sapwood [n -S] - See also: sapwood
Medical Definition of Alburnum
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Lexicographical Neighbors of Alburnum
Literary usage of Alburnum
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. A Selection from the Physiological and Horticultural Papers by Thomas Andrew Knight (1841)
"the conclusions they have drawn; and I think that were bark really transmuted
into alburnum, its progressive changes could only have escaped the eyes of ..."
2. Abstracts of the Papers Printed in the Philosophical Transactions of the by Royal Society (Great Britain) (1833)
"Upon the different Qualities of the alburnum of Spring and Winter- felled Oak Trees.
By Thomas Andrew Knight, Esq.FRS Read April 20, 1820. [Phil. Trans. ..."
3. A Journal of Natural Philosophy, Chemistry and the Arts by William Nicholson (1808)
"... in the cells both of their bark and alburnum in a fluid of both bark.* state;
and that this fluid, even when extravasated, ..."
4. Retrospect of Philosophical, Mechanical, Chemical, and Agricultural Discoveries (1810)
"... by observing that the writer in a former communication had endeavoured to
prove that the bark of-trees is not subsequently transmuted into alburnum, ..."
5. The Medico-chirurgical Review by James Johnson, Henry James Johnson (1829)
"The cells of plants are ever changing their fluids, and the fluids are ever
changing their properties; in this way is alburnum converted into duramen, ..."
6. A Treatise on the Physiology and Pathology of Trees: With Observations on by Peter Lyon (1816)
"The real wood is in the centre, surrounded by the alburnum. This wood is not
formed till the tree is of considerable size ; but the time is very different, ..."
7. What Words Say: A Practical Analysis of Words : for Use in Elementary Schools by John Kennedy (1887)
"Ugo. .that which.d Album ........... um . . that which.0 Albumen ......... umen .
. ness.f alburnum ........ urn . . ish ---- um . . that which.g ..."
8. An Essay on the History and Cultivation of the European Olive-tree by Augustus Lucas Hillhouse (1820)
"The alburnum is white and soft, and the perfect wood is hard, brittle, and of a
reddish tinct, with the pith nearly effaced, as in the Box. ..."
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