A rounded woody growth at or below ground level on some shrubs and trees that grow in areas subject to fire or drought, containing a mass of buds and food reserves.
〔植〕木质块茎
Example sentencesExamples
Their seedlings become highly ramified, passing through a creeping establishment phase consisting of a decumbent lignotuber with several basal sprouts.
She does not consider the most common figlike form to be a seedling, defining it instead as an aerial lignotuber.
We've just heard about lignotubers for example, which allow eucalypts to continue to grow even after a bushfire.
The latter have developed specialized, enlarged woody growths called lignotubers, which can store nutrients and water in the earth, out of the reach of fire.
Once the apex of a lignotuber penetrates below ground, it forms rhizomatous tissue that can generate both aerial shoots and adventitious roots.
Definition of lignotuber in US English:
lignotuber
nounˈliɡnōˌt(y)o͞obər
Botany
A rounded woody growth at or below ground level on some shrubs and trees that grow in areas subject to fire or drought, containing a mass of buds and food reserves.
〔植〕木质块茎
Example sentencesExamples
The latter have developed specialized, enlarged woody growths called lignotubers, which can store nutrients and water in the earth, out of the reach of fire.
We've just heard about lignotubers for example, which allow eucalypts to continue to grow even after a bushfire.
Once the apex of a lignotuber penetrates below ground, it forms rhizomatous tissue that can generate both aerial shoots and adventitious roots.
She does not consider the most common figlike form to be a seedling, defining it instead as an aerial lignotuber.
Their seedlings become highly ramified, passing through a creeping establishment phase consisting of a decumbent lignotuber with several basal sprouts.