Q.What do you infer from the term pycnoxylic?

Step 1. Gymnosperm wood, produced by secondary growth, is classified into two contrasting types based on how much parenchyma tissue it contains relative to conducting tissue.

Step 2. 'Pycnoxylic' describes wood that is dense and compact — made up mostly of closely packed tracheids, with only narrow medullary rays and comparatively little parenchyma.

Step 3. This contrasts with 'manoxylic' wood (soft, porous, with abundant parenchyma and wide medullary rays, e.g. in Cycas). …

Recall the definition of pycnoxylic wood and contrast it with its …

• Mixing up pycnoxylic (compact, conifer-type) and manoxylic (porous, Cycas-type) wood. …