pycnoxylic
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pycnoxylic (not comparable)
- (botany, of wood) Compact, dense with small rays of xylem, and not having much pith or cortex.
- Coordinate term: manoxylic
- 1991, Transactions of the Royal Society of Edinburgh: Earth sciences, page 122:
- The significance of pycnoxylic versus manoxylic organisation of wood is still not well understood. Pycnoxylic wood is a primitive feature of progymnosperms with regard to manoxylic wood with wide and high rays.