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 of the twigs brown; inflorescence pyramidal Elder, Sambucus racemosa. 3a.
From The Plants of Michigan Simple Keys for the Identification of the Native Seed Plants of the State by Gleason, Henry Allan
An ordinary tree branch, in transverse section, consists essentially of three parts only,—the Pith, Wood, and Bark.
From Proserpina, Volume 2 Studies Of Wayside Flowers by Ruskin, John
Pith not 5-angled; fruit a berry 1a, in CORNACEAE, p.
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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