English Explanatory Dictionary

Sanio's law

English dictionary entry

Meanings

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  1. Any of a series of observations on a pattern in the size of xylem tracheids, increasing in size from the top of a tree to a certain height, after which they decrease again to the base of the tree. These laws generally hold true for coniferous woods.

Word forms

Sanio's law Sanio's laws

Etymology

Published by Prussian botanist Karl Gustav Sanio (1832–1891).

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