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Adjective: periclinal  ,pe-ree'klI-nul
  1. (botany) used to describe a type of cell division in a layer of cells that occurs parallel to an adjacent layer of cells
    "A large number of grafted periclinal chimeras was kept over four years in the greenhouses"

Encyclopedia: Periclinal