(n.) One of the small, oval, rounded spots upon the stem or branch of a plant, from which the underlying tissues may protrude or roots may issue, either in the air, or more commonly when the stem or branch is covered with water or earth.
(n.) A small, lens-shaped gland on the under side of some leaves.
Example Sentences:
(1) Win2--GUS fusions were also expressed as part of normal plant development, as GUS activity was detected in the developing buds and in a layer of cells associated with the lenticels of unwounded tubers.
Tendril
Definition:
(a.) A slender, leafless portion of a plant by which it becomes attached to a supporting body, after which the tendril usually contracts by coiling spirally.
(a.) Clasping; climbing as a tendril.
Example Sentences:
(1) The buds are transformed into tendrils with swollen extremities.
(2) Tendrils were found only in regions which had characteristics of poor fixation.
(3) The tendrils could then be seen in all portions of the proximal convoluted tubule and not exclusively in the initial portion as previously reported.
(4) Examples of this approach include Alstom who have invested in Brightsource (utility scale solar thermal) and Tidal Generation (tidal power); ABB is working with Aquamarine (wave power) and Trilliant (smart grid); Siemens with Tendril and a number of other smart grid companies; Monsanto with biofuels company Sapphire Energy .
(5) Microtubular changes in degenerating CF tendrils were observed.
(6) When samples of pea tendril tissue were incubated in the Wachstein-Meisel medium for the demonstration of adenosine triphosphatases, deposits of lead reaction product were localized between the membranes of the chloroplast envelope.
(7) In AD, however, increased vascular tendrils in form of endothelial abluminal processes and intraparenchymal abnormalities were evident in cortical and hippocampal regions, predominant in cases with severe pathology.
(8) In the granular layer, tendril and glomerular collaterals of climbing fibers were observed.
(9) Approaching Istanbul, 435 days after slinking into the sea in Gibraltar, the pair found the city’s tendrils reaching down the Thracian coast.
(10) One of the characteristics of Dadd's fairy paintings is the way grasses and tendrils are apparently randomly interposed between the onlooker and the world in the painting.
(11) The villi intertwine in different positions; both the villi and their tendrils are covered with dense layers of microvilli.
(12) Tendrils have been reported to radiate from luminal surfaces of proximal tubules in rat kidneys by Andrews and Porter ('74) using scanning microscopy, but they were not seen by Bulger et al.
(13) The tendril-like processes continued to increase in length until about the end of the second postnatal month.
(14) I can imagine him enthroned in his techno-lair in Manhattan, sampling news feeds from the old country, allowing tendrils of moist patriotism to penetrate his otherwise steely alien mind.
(15) The climbing fibers formed tendril collaterals and glomeruli.
(16) Facebook Twitter Pinterest I would sit next to my mother on these afternoons and inevitably a tendril of tension would start emanating from the screen, and from her.
(17) The symptomatic form of livedo racemosa causes circumscribed, asymmetric lesions restricted to one half of the body, while the idiopathic form is characterised by arborization figures and livid tendril-like discolorations.
(18) A decade ago, the white tendrils of an iPod's headphones might have marked the wearer out as trendy; nowadays it makes them just one of the crowd, and Apple's in-ear headphones are too common to bother with.
(19) At least three types of urinary fibrillar material were observed: 10-12-nm-diameter fibrils similar to amyloid; 7-10-nm-diameter fibrils with characteristics of intracellular tonofibrils; and 15-30-nm-diameter fibrils suggestive of fibrin tendrils.
(20) These mixed-use habitats would extend upwards, outwards and deep underground in organic rings and tendrils.