Crossword-Solution: LIGNIFICATION
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| Word | Word Type | Definition |
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| Lignification | n. | A change in the character of a cell wall, by which it becomes harder. It is supposed to be due to an incrustation of lignin. |
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| the act of lignifying, turning to wood | 1 answer |
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Hint 1 meaning
To boil with a continued bubbling or heaving and
rolling, with noise.
Hint 2 anagram
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Sentences with LIGNIFICATION (5)
These grafts sometimes remained quite green and promising for a period of a month but lignification progressed in the stock without extending to the scion.
Speculation would introduce the idea that lignification relates to a hormone influence proceeding from the leaves of a tree and that the leafless scion does not send forth hormones for stimulating the cells of the scion to the point of furnishing enzymes for wood building.
The formation of ligno-cellulose is the chemical equivalent of the morphological change of the plant cell known as "lignification." The topical cuto-celluloses are the epidermal tissues of all growing plants or organs, which are easily detached from the underlying tissues which it is their function to protect.
The cellulose varies in amount from 80 to 50%, and the lignone varies inversely as the degree of lignification, that is, from the lignified bast fibre of annuals, of which jute is a type, to the dense tissues of the perennial dicotyledonous woods, typified by the beech.
Here we get a state of over-saturation with water set up, the tissues are turgid to bursting point, what supplies do traverse the sieve-tubes, cortex, etc., do so slowly and are excessively diluted, and the cambium again forms less wood, but the lumina of the vessels are larger and the lignification less complete.