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Definition of Stereome
1. Noun. (botany) A section of sclerenchyma at the base of a phyllary in some members of the Asteraceae. ¹
2. Noun. (botany obsolete) sclerenchyma ¹
¹ Source: wiktionary.com
Definition of Stereome
1. mechanical tissue in plants [n -S]
Lexicographical Neighbors of Stereome
Literary usage of Stereome
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. An Introduction to Vegetable Physiology by Joseph Reynolds Green (1900)
"/stereome of the plant. It forms, as we have seen, the most prominent part of
the endo-skeleton. The cells of which the masses of sclerenchyma are composed ..."
2. Guayule (Parthenium Argentatum Gray): A Rubber-Plant of the Chihuahuan Desert by Francis Ernest Lloyd (1911)
"During this phase of change the mutual pressure of the developing stereome and
the surrounding cortex results in the radial flattening of the latter, ..."
3. A Text-book of Botany by Eduard Strasburger (1898)
"Mechanical Tissues (stereome).—The supporting framework of plants is provided by
the thick-walled elements of the wood, the thickened ..."
4. The Proceedings of the Iowa Academy of Science by Iowa Academy of Science (1898)
"In all cases there exists an area of stereome between the bundles and the outer
epidermis. The only chlorophyll in the sheath is located in the chlorophyll ..."
5. Vegetation of the North Haven Sand Plains by Wilton Everett Britton (1903)
"Bundles are enclosed in a sheath of stereome which is not fully developed in ...
Outside of the stereome sheath is a parenchyma sheath found in connection ..."
6. The Grasses of Iowa by Louis Hermann Pammel, Julius Buel Weems, Carleton Roy Ball, F. Lamson-Scribner, Harry Foster Bain (1901)
"These alternate with those having stereome on upper and lower surfaces. ...
The uncolored parenchyma of the leaf is in immediate contact with the stereome. ..."
7. Bulletin by United States Bureau of Plant Industry, Division of Plant Industry, Queensland (1911)
"The stereome is thick walled and very unequally distributed. ... It is characteristic
of the genus Olea that the stereome cells traverse the pneumatic ..."
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