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Definition of Pithlike
1. resembling pith [adj]
Lexicographical Neighbors of Pithlike
Literary usage of Pithlike
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. A Descriptive Dictionary of British Malaya by Nicholas Belfield Dennys (1894)
"The bark is extremely light, buoyant, soft and pithlike, about | of an inch thick,
overlying the wood in thin white and light brown layers of the thickness ..."
2. The Popular Science Monthly (1894)
"... thereafter disappearing, and an outer ring of pithlike substance, the inner
bark, and a series of plates connecting the two, also of the nature of pith. ..."
3. Journal by Institution of Electrical Engineers Radio Section (1874)
"... upon the texture of wood is somewhat similar to the dry rot, but in place of
reducing timber to a dry snuff it makes it a soft, wet, pithlike substance. ..."
4. A Textbook of Botany for Colleges and Universities by John Merle Coulter, Charles Reid Barnes, Henry Chandler Cowles (1910)
"... and (3) a pithlike axis. There are no special structures for vegetative
multiplication, but great masses of individuals are formed by the indefinite ..."
5. The Anatomy of Woody Plants by Edward Charles Jeffrey (1917)
"The protoxylem groups are incompletely united in the center, and a pithlike
cluster of parenchymatous cells is consequently found in the midst of the ..."
6. New American Farm Book by Richard Lamb Allen (1869)
"They are universally characterized as having a cylindrical stem, hollow, or
sometimes, as in the sugar cane and bamboos, filled with a pithlike substance, ..."
7. Our Edible Toadstools and Mushrooms and how to Distinguish Them: A Selection by William Hamilton Gibson (1899)
"... The stem is less solid than in Campestris, often with a pithlike or even hollow
heart. The gills are of unequal length, as in the former species, ..."
8. The Standard Dictionary of Facts: History, Language, Literature, Biography edited by Henry Woldmar Ruoff (1908)
"The tree is liable to be attacked by a fungus which, vegetating in the woody
part, renders it soft and pithlike. By the negroes of the west coast these ..."
9. A Descriptive Dictionary of British Malaya by Nicholas Belfield Dennys (1894)
"The bark is extremely light, buoyant, soft and pithlike, about | of an inch thick,
overlying the wood in thin white and light brown layers of the thickness ..."
10. The Popular Science Monthly (1894)
"... thereafter disappearing, and an outer ring of pithlike substance, the inner
bark, and a series of plates connecting the two, also of the nature of pith. ..."
11. Journal by Institution of Electrical Engineers Radio Section (1874)
"... upon the texture of wood is somewhat similar to the dry rot, but in place of
reducing timber to a dry snuff it makes it a soft, wet, pithlike substance. ..."
12. A Textbook of Botany for Colleges and Universities by John Merle Coulter, Charles Reid Barnes, Henry Chandler Cowles (1910)
"... and (3) a pithlike axis. There are no special structures for vegetative
multiplication, but great masses of individuals are formed by the indefinite ..."
13. The Anatomy of Woody Plants by Edward Charles Jeffrey (1917)
"The protoxylem groups are incompletely united in the center, and a pithlike
cluster of parenchymatous cells is consequently found in the midst of the ..."
14. New American Farm Book by Richard Lamb Allen (1869)
"They are universally characterized as having a cylindrical stem, hollow, or
sometimes, as in the sugar cane and bamboos, filled with a pithlike substance, ..."
15. Our Edible Toadstools and Mushrooms and how to Distinguish Them: A Selection by William Hamilton Gibson (1899)
"... The stem is less solid than in Campestris, often with a pithlike or even hollow
heart. The gills are of unequal length, as in the former species, ..."
16. The Standard Dictionary of Facts: History, Language, Literature, Biography edited by Henry Woldmar Ruoff (1908)
"The tree is liable to be attacked by a fungus which, vegetating in the woody
part, renders it soft and pithlike. By the negroes of the west coast these ..."
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