The ligneous statue of the town patron is still preserved after fifty years since its creation. From LearnThat.org.
ligneous (or woody) tissue. From Wordnet, Princeton University.
The upper stratum is ligneous, and is found to be very convenient for pavements. From Wordnik.com. [The Lady of the Ice A Novel] Reference
The fragile ligneous cylinder would certainly have been broken during such transportation. From Wordnik.com. [Scientific American Supplement, No. 481, March 21, 1885] Reference
The native dress is made of the bark of trees, smashed with stones, to extract the ligneous parts. From Wordnik.com. [The Philippine Islands] Reference
It is distinguished from the bitter cassava by a tough ligneous fibre, which runs through the heart of the tuber. From Wordnik.com. [The Commercial Products of the Vegetable Kingdom Considered in Their Various Uses to Man and in Their Relation to the Arts and Manufactures; Forming a Practical Treatise & Handbook of Reference for the Colonist, Manufacturer, Merchant, and Consumer, on the Cultivation, Preparation for Shipment, and Commercial Value, &c. of the Various Substances Obtained From Trees and Plants, Entering into the Husbandry of Tropical and Sub-tropical Regions, &c.] Reference
Mr. WEGG had this advantage over Mr. FECHTER, that his literary ability did not wholly depend upon his ligneous leg. From Wordnik.com. [Punchinello, Volume 1, No. 01, April 2, 1870] Reference
The cassava cakes sent to Europe are composed almost entirely of starch, along with a few fibres of the ligneous matter. From Wordnik.com. [The Commercial Products of the Vegetable Kingdom Considered in Their Various Uses to Man and in Their Relation to the Arts and Manufactures; Forming a Practical Treatise & Handbook of Reference for the Colonist, Manufacturer, Merchant, and Consumer, on the Cultivation, Preparation for Shipment, and Commercial Value, &c. of the Various Substances Obtained From Trees and Plants, Entering into the Husbandry of Tropical and Sub-tropical Regions, &c.] Reference
A chemical solution of flax therefore would prove for some purposes undesirable, owing to the presence of this ligneous matter. From Wordnik.com. [Scientific American Supplement, No. 530, February 27, 1886] Reference
These trees produce ligneous roots which, when cooked, are excellent; from them, by fermentation, a very agreeable liquor is made. From Wordnik.com. [The Mysterious Island] Reference
In Figs. 11 and 12, which show a few tracheæ and medullary rays of the ligneous bands of the same plant, we observe the same phenomenon. From Wordnik.com. [Scientific American Supplement, No. 481, March 21, 1885] Reference
It differs from the other kinds in having a deep red cuticle of a close texture, and the color is more generally diffused through the ligneous part. From Wordnik.com. [The Commercial Products of the Vegetable Kingdom Considered in Their Various Uses to Man and in Their Relation to the Arts and Manufactures; Forming a Practical Treatise & Handbook of Reference for the Colonist, Manufacturer, Merchant, and Consumer, on the Cultivation, Preparation for Shipment, and Commercial Value, &c. of the Various Substances Obtained From Trees and Plants, Entering into the Husbandry of Tropical and Sub-tropical Regions, &c.] Reference
The manufacture of a hand-saw cost infinite trouble, but at last an instrument was obtained which, when vigorously handled, could divide the ligneous fibers of the wood. From Wordnik.com. [The Mysterious Island] Reference
From this, the milky starch flows into the jacket, N, while the pulp (ligneous fibers) makes its exit from the apparatus through the aperture, n, and falls into the reservoir, o. From Wordnik.com. [Scientific American Supplement, No. 415, December 15, 1883] Reference
Grapes fine, nectarines capital; gooseberries, plums, mulberries, currants, all better than ours; apples wretched, "not fit to give the pigs," liked all the better for being hard, or ligneous. From Wordnik.com. [The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 18, No. 106, August, 1866] Reference
The internal causes are related to the arrangement of the tissues, and we may say that the opening of fruit can be easily explained by the contraction of the ligneous fibers under drying influences. From Wordnik.com. [Scientific American Supplement, No. 430, March 29, 1884] Reference
What shall we say to them on this ligneous occasion?. From Wordnik.com. [Toasts and Forms of Public Address for Those Who Wish to Say the Right Thing in the Right Way] Reference
My theory has ever been that coal is a ligneous formation. From Wordnik.com. [Roughing It] Reference
The essentially ligneous and compact part of a stem 149. From Wordnik.com. [Proserpina, Volume 1 Studies Of Wayside Flowers] Reference
The stalk soon becomes ligneous, and in time acquires considerable thickness. From Wordnik.com. [The History of Sumatra Containing An Account Of The Government, Laws, Customs And Manners Of The Native Inhabitants] Reference
It grows to the height of about four feet, has a stem imperfectly ligneous, without branches. From Wordnik.com. [The History of Sumatra Containing An Account Of The Government, Laws, Customs And Manners Of The Native Inhabitants] Reference
The common kind is known to have small pinnated leaves growing on stalks imperfectly ligneous. From Wordnik.com. [The History of Sumatra Containing An Account Of The Government, Laws, Customs And Manners Of The Native Inhabitants] Reference
The outside of the durian is ligneous and is covered with strong prickles of nearly an inch long. From Wordnik.com. [My Friends the Savages Notes and Observations of a Perak settler (Malay Peninsula)] Reference
We have found shrubs of eight or ten feet high entwined with bignonia and other ligneous creepers. From Wordnik.com. [Personal Narrative of Travels to the Equinoctial Regions of America, During the Year 1799-1804 — Volume 1] Reference
Neither inside nor out does the lens discover the slightest ligneous particle pointing to a vegetable residue. From Wordnik.com. [The Glow-Worm and Other Beetles] Reference
Here and there branches were broken off, stripped clean of their leaves, and the ligneous parts left upon the ground. From Wordnik.com. [Popular Adventure Tales] Reference
The first tegument is osseous or ligneous, triangular, tuberculated on its exterior surface, and of the colour of cinnamon. From Wordnik.com. [Personal Narrative of Travels to the Equinoctial Regions of America, During the Year 1799-1804 — Volume 2] Reference
Of course, there is a vast consumption of ligneous material for all these uses in Europe, but it is greatly less than at earlier periods. From Wordnik.com. [The Earth as Modified by Human Action] Reference
Very soon the table gave signs of upheaval, while some cobbling sprite fell to tapping merrily at his trade within its ligneous recesses. From Wordnik.com. [Without Prejudice] Reference
These ligneous ridges sometimes separate from the trunk at a height of eight feet, and are transformed into cylindrical roots two feet thick. From Wordnik.com. [Personal Narrative of Travels to the Equinoctial Regions of America, During the Year 1799-1804 — Volume 1] Reference
On declivities devoid of shrubs or ligneous herbs, which may be grasped by the hand, the danger of the descent is diminished by walking barefoot. From Wordnik.com. [Personal Narrative of Travels to the Equinoctial Regions of America, During the Year 1799-1804 — Volume 1] Reference
But among the dicotyledonous vegetables there is none that merit the attention of naturalists as the creeping ligneous plants known as so much lianes. From Wordnik.com. [Movement of the International Literary Exchanges, between France and North America from January 1845 to May, 1846 With Instructions for Collecting, Preparing, and Forwarding Objects of Natural History Written by The Professors Administrators of The Museum Of Natural History At Paris. And Instructions Relative to Anthropology and Zoology] Reference
"True, father, but I thought it would be preferable to the constant crepitation which is apt to attend the combustion of more seasoned ligneous fragments.". From Wordnik.com. [The Luck of Roaring Camp and Other Tales With Condensed Novels, Spanish and American Legends, and Earlier Papers] Reference
This disc appeared composed of some substance that was not ligneous: for it no more resembled wood than the curved ivory-like object that protruded from its centre. From Wordnik.com. [The Cliff Climbers A Sequel to "The Plant Hunters"] Reference
As early as the sixteenth century, the seeds with ligneous and triangular teguments (but not the great drupe like a cocoa-nut, which contains the almonds,) were known in Europe. From Wordnik.com. [Personal Narrative of Travels to the Equinoctial Regions of America, During the Year 1799-1804 — Volume 2] Reference
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