Longitudinal Definition

Longitudinal Sentence Examples

• The leaf-stalks and flowerstalks are traversed by longitudinal air-passages, whose disposition varies in different species.

• In the one the pattern consists of narrow vertical stripes, and in the other of longitudinal or obliquely longitudinal stripes, which, on the sides of the body, tend to assume a spiral or sub-circular arrangement characteristic of the blotched tabby.

• The young tissue of the stelar cylinder, in the case of the modified siphonostele characteristic of the dicotyledonous stem, differs from the adjoining pith and cortex in its narrow elongated cells, a difference produced by the stopping of transverse and the increased frequency of longitudinal divisions.

• The cells not only fuse together in longitudinal and transverse rows, but put out transverse projections, which fuse with others of a similar nature, and thus form an anastomosing network of tubes which extends to all parts of the plant.

• In humming-birds and petrels the trachea is partly divided by a vertical, longitudinal, cartilaginous septum.