pit membrane
Botany
noun
The relatively thin area of primary cell wall and middle lamella at the base of a pit, especially when this forms the common partition between the opposed pits of a pit pair.
Origin
Late 19th century; earliest use found in Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society of London.
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