manoxylic

English

Etymology

From Ancient Greek μανός (manós, “sparse”) + xylic, equivalent to mano- +‎ xylic.

Adjective

manoxylic (not comparable)

1. (botany, of wood) Sparse, with much pith and cortex, and having wide parenchymatous rays.

   Coordinate term: pycnoxylic

   • 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.

   • 2007, C. M. Govil, Gymnosperms Extinct and Extant, page 22:

     Initially, the family included only one stem genus of Calamopitys but later as many as seven stem genera, namely, Calamopitys, Stenomyelon, Diichnia with manoxylic wood […]