bothrenchyma

alternative bothrenchym

1. obsoleteuncountablebiologyDotted or pitted ducts or vessels forming the pores seen in many kinds of wood.

   Sect. II. — Of Pitted Tissue, or Bothrenchym.* * Βοθρος, a little pit.

   1848, John Lindley, An Introduction to Botany, fourth edition, volume I, page 56

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   Pitted or Dotted Vessels. — These constitute by their combination Pitted Tissue, the Porous Tissue of some authors, or the Vasiform Tissue, Bothrenchyma, Taphrenchyma of others; the two latter names being derived from Greek words signifying pits.

   1870, Robert Bentley, A Manual of Botany, second edition, page 40

   The names of bothrenchyma and taphrenchyma have been given to a tissue composed of such cells.

   1876, John Hutton Balfour, in Encyclopædia Britannica, ninth edition, volume IV, page 87/1

   Synonyms: taphrenchyma