Definition of Internode

1. Noun. A segment of a stem between two nodes.

Generic synonyms: Segment
Group relationships: Stalk, Stem

Definition of Internode

1. n. The space between two nodes or points of the stem from which the leaves properly arise.

Definition of Internode

1. Noun. (botany) A section of stem between two stem nodes. ¹

2. Noun. (context: technical) Whatever lies between two nodes. ¹

¹ Source: wiktionary.com

Definition of Internode

1. [n -S]

Medical Definition of Internode

1. The portion of a stem between the level of insertion of two successive leaves or leaf pairs (or branches of an inflorescence). (09 Oct 1997)

Lexicographical Neighbors of Internode

interneuromeric clefts
interneuron
interneuronal
interneurons
interning
internings
internist
internists
internity
internment
internment camp
internment camps
internments
internodal
internodal segment
internode (current term)
internodes
internodial
interns
internship
internship and residency
internships
internuclear
internuclear ophthalmoplegia
internucleon
internucleonic
internucleoside
internucleosomal
internucleotide
internuncial

Literary usage of Internode

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

1. Catalogue of Marine Polyzoa in the Collection of the British Museum by George Busk (1852)
"In the aberrant species above referred to the cells are numerous in each internode, usually tri- or multiserial. The genus appears to enjoy a wide ..."

2. Comparative Anatomy of the Vegetative Organs of the Phanerogams and Ferns by Anton Bary (1884)
"They run perpendicularly down the individual internode. In most species transverse anastomosis in the node makes it difficult to follow their further course ..."

3. Text-book of Botany, Morphological and Physical by Julius Sachs (1882)
"The upper and lower end of an internode • of a freshly cut fragment of a stem were marked ... Sambucus nigra 26 18*0 5*4 The next older internode 65 3'! ..."

4. Organography of Plants, Especially of the Archegoniata and Spermaphyta by Karl Goebel (1900)
"In lateral shoots the leaf-insertions are often brought by torsion of the internode into one plane, which is nearly horizontal. The upper surfaces of the ..."

5. Pagan Races of the Malay Peninsula by Walter William Skeat, Charles Otto Blagden (1906)
"m internode ; at the other end it was cut through at right angles to its axis and sharpened at the edge. Vaughan-Stevens adds that the operation was ..."

6. Lectures on Plant Physiology by Ludwig Jost (1907)
"individual internode obviously goes through its own grand period, although we know but little as to the distribution of growth in it. ..."

7. Guayule (Parthenium Argentatum Gray): A Rubber-Plant of the Chihuahuan Desert by Francis Ernest Lloyd (1911)
"The same preparations show also the formation of chlorenchyma strips in the cortex of the peduncle sector, nearly down to the base of the first internode ..."

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