Definition of Metaxylem

1. [n -S]

Lexicographical Neighbors of Metaxylem

metatypy
metatyuyamunite
metavanadate
metavanadates
metavanadic
metavanadic acid
metavandendriesscheite
metavanmeersscheite
metavanuralite
metavariscite
metavauxite
metaverse
metavivianite
metavoltine
metaxalone
metaxylem (current term)
metaxylems
metaxylene
metaxylenes
metayage
metayages
metayer
metayers
metazellerite
metazeunerite
metazoa
metazoal
metazoan
metazoans
metazocine

Literary usage of Metaxylem

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

1. Proceedings of the Cambridge Philosophical Society by Cambridge Philosophical Society (1900)
"3, PL v., are features characteristic of a trace as seen in its gradual passage into the metaxylem of the stele. The more internal elements of a leaf-trace ..."

2. A Textbook of Botany for Colleges and Universities by John Merle Coulter, Charles Reid Barnes, Henry Chandler Cowles (1910)
"If the metaxylem develops in all directions from the protoxylem, ... 380, 381), which means that the protoxylem is surrounded by metaxylem. ..."

3. Report of the Annual Meeting (1907)
"During this rearrangement the xylem groups come into contact, the metaxylem derived from the seed-leaves joins up with the ..."

4. The Anatomy of Woody Plants by Edward Charles Jeffrey (1917)
"Elements in the aggregation belonging to this category are known as the metaxylem or, more specifically, as the primary metaxylem. ..."

5. The Encyclopedia Americana: A Library of Universal Knowledge (1919)
"The metaxylem may have pits or reticular markings, but no spirals or rings. The position of the protoxylem in the primary xylem is of great importance. ..."

6. The Origin of a Land Flora: A Theory Based Upon the Facts of Alternation by Frederick Orpen Bower (1908)
"... relation to the origin of the strands which pass to the roots (Fig. 328; Boodle, Fig. 10). In species with small rhizomes the metaxylem /* 10 FIG. 328. ..."

7. The New International Encyclopaedia by Herbert Treadwell Wade (1922)
"... so that it becomes surrounded by metaxylem, the xylem strand is said to be ... the former indicating that the metaxylem is developed centripetally from ..."

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