palisade layer

palisade layer
noun Date: 1914 a layer of columnar cells rich in chloroplasts found beneath the upper epidermis of foliage leaves — called also palisade mesophyll, palisade parenchyma, palisade tissue — compare spongy parenchyma

New Collegiate Dictionary. 2001.

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  • palisade cell — noun Date: 1875 a cell of the palisade layer …   New Collegiate Dictionary

  • palisade mesophyll — noun see palisade layer …   New Collegiate Dictionary

  • palisade parenchyma — noun see palisade layer …   New Collegiate Dictionary

  • palisade tissue — noun see palisade layer …   New Collegiate Dictionary

  • palisade mesophyll — or palisade parenchyma, the tissue formed by a layer of palisade cells …   Useful english dictionary

  • palisade parenchyma — n. a layer of cylindrical cells containing chloroplasts, lying just below the upper epidermis of many leaves with their long axes at right angles to the epidermis …   English World dictionary

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