pith
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Pith cells stain greenish-blue and are about 50 to 100 microns in diameter in the middle, and smaller toward the outside.
From Textbooks • Jan. 1, 2015
Pith helmets with netting, tools, and wax candles hung from nails near the front door, and a thin veneer of honey lay across everything.
From "The Secret Life of Bees" by Sue Monk Kidd
Pith, the cellular centre of an exogenous stem, 138.
From The Elements of Botany For Beginners and For Schools by Gray, Asa
Pith, pith, n. the marrow or soft substance in the centre of the stems of dicotyledonous plants: force or energy: importance: condensed substance: quintessence.—n.
From Chambers's Twentieth Century Dictionary (part 3 of 4: N-R) by Various
Pith of the twigs white; inflorescence flattened or convex Elder, Sambucus canadensis. 2b.
From The Plants of Michigan Simple Keys for the Identification of the Native Seed Plants of the State by Gleason, Henry Allan
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