Meanings
adjectivepycnoxylic (not comparable)
- not comparablebiologyCompact, dense with small rays of xylem, and not having much pith or cortex.
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
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