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† inˈsertment Bot. Obs. rare.
[f. insert + -ment.]
That which is inserted or placed between; a former term for the medullary rays; = insertion 2.
1671Grew in Phil. Trans. VI. 3039 The Insertment and Pith, proceeding also from the Plume, as the same in the Root from the Radicle. 1671― Anat. Pl. ii. §10 The next Part observable in the Root, is the Insertment... In dissecting a Root, I find, that the Cortical Body doth not only environ the Lignous, but is also wedg'd, and in many Pieces inserted into it; and that the said inserted Pieces make not a meer Indenture, but transmit and shoot them⁓selves quite through as far as the Pith. 1814Edin. Rev. XXII. 257 They were named insertments..and constitute what is vulgarly termed the silver grain of the wood. |