A Grammatical Dictionary of Botanical Latin

Thickening (noun), a thickness, as in a swelling: callus,-i (s.m.II), abl. sg. callo; callum,-i (s.m.II), abl. sg. callo, ‘callus, a hardened thickening, cuticular swelling; the hard, often hairy swelling from which the lemma and palea arises in grasses; a thickened area;’ incrassatio,-onis (s.f.III), abl. sg. incrassatione; inspissitas,-atis (s.f.III), abl. sg. inspissitate, a thickening; spissamentum,-i (s.n.II), abl. sg. spissamento, ‘a stopper, plug,’ a thickening that stops up something;’ cf. nodus,-i (s.m.II), abl. sg. nodo, nom. pl. nodi, acc. pl. nodos, dat.& abl. pl. nodis, ‘a knot or knob in wood or the branches of plants;’ nodulus,-i (s.m.II), abl.sg. nodulo, nom. pl. noduli, acc. pl. nodulos, dat.& abl.pl. nodulis, ‘nodule, a small knot or knob;’

- cellulae epidermales membranae capsularum incrassationibus noduliformibus localibus praeditae, epidermal cells of the membrane of the capsules provided with noduliform local thickenings.

- lumen ob parietum incrassationem fere nullum, ad rimam angustam reductum, lumen on account of the thickness of the walls almost none, reduced to a narrow fissure.

- stratum capsulae interiore maximam partem inspissamentis noduliformibus vel spiniformibus, interior layer of the capsule mostly with noduliform or spiniform thickenings.

NOTE: pars, gen.sg. partis (s.f.III), acc. sg. partem, abl. sg. parte, nom. & acc. pl. partes, dat. & abl. pl. partibus, ‘part, portion, sector, piece + incrassata (adj.A), ‘thickened;’

- metulae interdum in parte apicali incrassatae, metulae sometimes in the apical part thickened.

NOTE: cf. tyl-, tylo-, -tylus,-i (s.m.II): in Gk. comp. callose, knobbed, knotted, padded [> Gk. tylos (s.m.II) or tylE (s.f.I) a knot or callus; anything rising like a lump, knot, knob; a callus, pad];

bearing a callus or hardened thickening: callifer,-fera,-ferum (adj.A), callosus,-a,-um (adj.A).

nodular thickenings: knob-like enlargements; in bryophytes “usually applied to the radial wall thickenings that appear as pigmented knobs on exothecial cells when seen in surface view” (Magill 1990): densitas,-atis (s.f.III) nodulosa (adj.A), abl. sg. densitate nodulosa; spissitas,-atis (s.f.III) nodulosa (adj.A), abl. sg. spissitate nodulosa; cellula,-ae (s.f.I) noduloso-incrassata (adj.A), abl. sg. cellula noduloso-incrassata; paries,-etis (s.m.III) nodulose (adv.) incrassatus (adj.A), abl. sg. pariete nodulose incrassato.

wall thickenings: fibril; the fine, fiber-like wall thickenings in hyaline cells and sometimes cortical cells of Sphagnum: fibrilla,-ae (s.f.I), abl.sg. fibrilla, nom. pl. fibrillae, acc. pl. fibrillas, abl.pl. fibrillis.

Thickening (noun): see swelling (noun).

thickenings, full of: see ‘swellings, full of.’