ligneous
pronunciation
How to pronounce ligneous in British English:
UK ['lɪgnɪəs]
How to pronounce ligneous in American English:
US [ˈlɪɡniəs]
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- Adjective:
- consisting of or containing lignin or xylem
Word Origin
- ligneous (adj.)
- "woody," 1620s, from French ligneux and directly from Latin ligneus, from lignum "wood, firewood" (see ligni-).
Example
- 1. Characteristics and distributional types of ligneous flora of gansu .
- 2. Reductive treatments were effective against ligneous chromophores , but this was often not so for chemical dyestuffs .
- 3. Non - hodgkin 's lymphoma and auricular hypoplasia : associated with juvenile colloid milium or ligneous conjunctivitis ?
- 4. The content of phenolic compound , polysaccharides and other secondary metabolites is high in ligneous plant , which influences frequently the yield and quality of genome dna when being extracted .