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Definition of Protostelic
1. [adj]
Lexicographical Neighbors of Protostelic
Literary usage of Protostelic
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. The Origin of a Land Flora: A Theory Based Upon the Facts of Alternation by Frederick Orpen Bower (1908)
"In both cases a prevalence of a cylindrical protostelic state, with comparatively
slight disturbance of the axial system on departure of the leaf-traces, ..."
2. The Anatomy of Woody Plants by Edward Charles Jeffrey (1917)
"207 illustrates the organization of the protostelic axis of the genus ...
The fibrovascular apparatus consists of protostelic primary wood surrounded by a ..."
3. Science by American Association for the Advancement of Science (1901)
"... makes the latter the protostelic ancestors of the former. An acceptance of
these conclusions would carry our knowledge of the phylum back to Lower ..."
4. The American Naturalist by American Society of Naturalists, Essex Institute (1908)
"... and in strictly acropetal order: a protostelic structure of the conducting
system of the axis, and a leaf-trace composed of a single strand. ..."
5. The Structure and Development of Mosses and Ferns (Archegoniatae). by Douglas Houghton Campbell (1905)
"As the stem grows, the central stele, which at first is solid ("protostelic"),
becomes a hollow cylinder ..."
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