This consists of elongated lignified cells with pitted walls.    From Wordnik.com.  [Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 4, Part 3 "Brescia" to "Bulgaria"] Reference

Strong, hard, and lignified (as in bamboo), they act like a wooden palisade across the hill slope.    From Wordnik.com.  [4 Questions and Answers] Reference

L. edodes has potential for bioconversion of lignified residues and low-quality wood into fungal protein.    From Wordnik.com.  [Chapter 5] Reference

Called Giza 114, it has solid lignified stalks that burn at an especially high temperature for the stem of a grass.    From Wordnik.com.  [11. Sorghum: Fuel and Utility Types] Reference

Inflorescences are cone-like with lignified scales, dark brown when ripened, and bearing more than 100 fruits per cone.    From Wordnik.com.  [Chapter 4] Reference

If one waited until the buds were developed the tissue at the base of the cutting was too highly lignified for root formation.    From Wordnik.com.  [Northern Nut Growers Association Report of the Proceedings at the Forty-Second Annual Meeting Urbana, Illinois, August 28, 29 and 30, 1951] Reference

The species propagates well asexually because lignified branches of any age possess a strong ability to form adventitious roots.    From Wordnik.com.  [Chapter 10] Reference

It should be considered as a means of converting wood processing residues and other lignified wastes into partially de-lignified products for feed or fibre use, or for further conversions (23).    From Wordnik.com.  [Chapter 5] Reference

Straw, like all mature plant tissue, is relatively indigestible by the micro-organisms that inhabit the digestive tract of ruminants, This is because straw cell walls are heavily lignified or silicified.    From Wordnik.com.  [Chapter 12] Reference

I noticed that some small branches of the Persian walnuts had been injured, and particularly where grafts had started a little late and had not lignified quite thoroughly I lost whatever grafts had not had time to lignify.    From Wordnik.com.  [Northern Nut Growers Association, Report of the Proceedings at the Third Annual Meeting Lancaster, Pennsylvania, December 18 and 19, 1912] Reference

John ii. 1 9, 2 1; and where the Lord is iignified, the Word alfo is lignified, be.    From Wordnik.com.  [THE DOCTRINE OF THE NEW JERUSALEM] Reference

• The lowed of this order was the Dor, whence S&eerdos; it lignified the youngeft in rank,. but I Icnoiv not fhe privation.    From Wordnik.com.  [Collectanea de rebus hibernicis ..] Reference

The definitive characteristic of a drupe is that the hard, lignified stone (or pit) is derived from the ovary wall of the flower.    From Wordnik.com.  [Please Don't Pass The Nuts™] Reference

Dr. Hockiu gave us a ghastly curiosity -- a lignified caterpillar with a plant growing out of the back of its neck -- a plant with a slender stem 4 inches high.    From Wordnik.com.  [Following the Equator] Reference

In contrast, relatively little is known about similar processes in other plants such as stone fruits which contain an extremely hard lignified endocarp or stone surrounding a single seed.    From Wordnik.com.  [BioMed Central - Latest articles] Reference

Amongst the most despicable are the frozen (so-called) cakes which consist of whipped oil, often fish oil (the darker and the stronger the more likely the cake is to end up flavoured as chocolate) and lignified cellulose (which you can't digest but termites can).    From Wordnik.com.  [AlterNet.org Main RSS Feed] Reference

In the morning and evening of each day, his civil and military fervants attended their duty in the palace; their labour was repaid by the fight, perhaps by the fmile, of their lord; his com - mands were lignified by a nod or a fign: but all earthly greatnefs Jlood filent and fubmiffive.    From Wordnik.com.  [The History of the Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire: By Edward Gibbon ...] Reference

The team's finding provides a new perspective on the early evolution of lignified support tissues - such as wood - on land, since the seaweed tissues that are most stressed by waves crashing on shore appear to contain the most lignin, possibly contributing to mechanical support, says Martone.    From Wordnik.com.  [PALAEOBLOG] Reference

"dry" caustic treatment, as reported by Wilson and Pigden (18), a partially de-lignified straw was prepared by autoclaving 10 9 of straw with 3 9.    From Wordnik.com.  [Chapter 6] Reference

'float,' 1 grm. of substance occupying an apparent volume of 40-50 c.c. This pith-like substance is morphologically a true wood (De Bary), and the author's investigations now establish that it is in all fundamental points of chemical composition a lignocellulose, although from its colour reactions it has been considered by botanists to be a cellulose tissue containing a proportion of lignified cells.    From Wordnik.com.  [Researches on Cellulose 1895-1900] Reference

'lignified hog,' Job's tears, Madagascar lances, William the Conqueror's flaming sword, and Henry the Eighth's coat of mail. ".    From Wordnik.com.  [Autobiography of Benjamin Franklin] Reference

This is lignified by thofe words.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Accomplishment of the Scripture Prophecies: Proving that the Papacy is ...] Reference

3: 1), a large number of either too young, i.e., succulent stakes, or too old, i.e., very lignified stakes, are selected.    From Wordnik.com.  [1. Good quality bean seed.] Reference

It all crumbles if the production model becomes like our mob-stocking-herbivorous-solar-conversion-lignified-carbon-sequestration fertilization.    From Wordnik.com.  [The criminalization of seed banking: hidden inside Monsanto "food safety" bills] Reference