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Definition of Corticate
1. a. Having a special outer covering of a nature unlike the interior part.
Definition of Corticate
1. Adjective. Sheathed in bark or in a cortex. ¹
¹ Source: wiktionary.com
Definition of Corticate
1. [adj]
Lexicographical Neighbors of Corticate
Literary usage of Corticate
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Encyclopaedia Britannica: A Standard Work of Reference in Art, Literature (1907)
"They have no permanent cell-mouth leading into the soft protoplasm since that
soft protoplasm is everywhere freely exposed. The corticate Protozoa have ..."
2. The Encyclopaedia Britannica: A Dictionary of Arts, Sciences, and General by Thomas Spencer Baynes (1888)
"These non-corticate Protozoa can take solid particles of food into their ...
The corticate Protozoa have (with the exception of some parasites) one, ..."
3. The Century Dictionary: An Encyclopedic Lexicon of the English Language by William Dwight Whitney (1889)
"[As corticate + -in«;2.] Constituting or serving as a cortex, bark, rind, ...
[As corticate + -inn.] The formation of a cortex. cortices, «. ..."
4. The Proceedings of the Linnean Society of New South Wales by Linnean Society of New South Wales (1886)
"Chondrilla corticate. R. v. L. Transverse section through the outer zone 60:1,
showing the dermal pavement skeleton. Fig. 19. ..."
5. Journal of Botany, British and Foreign (1895)
"... but with the primary cells only developed, and has sometimes one or two
corticate segments to the branchlets. We have received a form of C. contraria, ..."
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