Crossword-Solution: PERIDERM
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| Word | Word Type | Definition |
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| Periderm | n. | The outer layer of bark. |
| Periderm | n. | The hard outer covering of hydroids and other marine animals; the perisarc. |
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| PLANT tissue below the bark | 1 answer |
| outer corky protective layer of woody stems and roots | 1 answer |
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Hint 1 meaning
An inflammatory disease of the skin, characterized by the
presence of redness and itching, an eruption of small vesicles, and the
discharge of a watery exudation, which often dries up, leaving the skin
covered with crusts; -- called also tetter, milk crust, and salt rheum.
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eruption
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Sentences with PERIDERM (5)
See Aëro-; Enchyma.] (Bot.) Defn: A secondary respiratory tissue or modified periderm, found in many aquatic plants and distinguished by the large intercellular spaces.
PERIDERM, per'i-derm, _n._ the hard integument of some tubularian hydromedusans: (_bot._) the outer bark.--_adj._ PER'IDERMAL.
Rapid reproduction results in the majority of the young rootlets being thus attacked, and since they cannot form their normal periderm and harden off properly they rot, and admit fungi and other evils, in consequence of which the vine suffers also in the parts above ground.
Where the dry-rot is due to _Fusarium_ the chalk-white stromata may often be detected breaking through the periderm; but it must be remembered that the soil-contaminated, broken skin of a potato-tuber is a favourable lurking spot for many fungi, and _Periola_, _Acrostalagmus_, and others have been detected therein.
They may be situated largely in the periderm, the soft parenchyma beneath the periderm, or through the whole mass of the parenchyma with the exception of the matrix surrounding the seeds in the loculi.