Meanings
- not comparablebiologySparse, with much pith and cortex, and having wide parenchymatous rays.
Initially, the family included only one stem genus of Calamopitys but later as many as seven stem genera, namely, Calamopitys, Stenomyelon, Diichnia with manoxylic wood […]
2007, C. M. Govil, Gymnosperms Extinct and Extant, page 221 more example
The significance of pycnoxylic versus manoxylic organisation of wood is still not well understood. Pycnoxylic wood is a primitive feature of progymnosperms with regard to manoxylic wood with wide and high rays.
1991, Transactions of the Royal Society of Edinburgh: Earth sciences, page 122
Origin
- Ancient Greekμανός“sparse”
- Englishmanoxylic
From Ancient Greek μανός (manós, “sparse”) + xylic, equivalent to mano- + xylic.
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