used as a combining form of L. lignum wood (cf. LIGNI-) in a few scientific and technical terms. Lignocellulose, Lignoceric a. [L. cera wax] (see quots.). † Lignograph [-GRAPH], a wood-engraving. Lignography, wood engraving. Ligno-sulphuric a. = sulpholignic a.
1900. Jackson, Gloss. Bot. Terms, 47. *Lignocelluloses, lignin combined with cellulose, as in Jute fibre.
1888. Syd. Soc. Lex., *Lignoceric acid, C24 H48 O2 = C23 H47 . CO2 H. A fatty acid contained in paraffin and in beech-wood tar.
1844. Mantell, Medals Creation, 1. xviii. Contents, The excellent artists by whom the *lignographs or wood-cuts were engraven.
1849. Chambers’s Inform., II. 721/1. The art of Wood-Engraving, or, as it is sometimes more learnedly termed … Xylography and *Lignography.
1855. Ogilvie, Suppl., *Ligno-sulphuric acid, sulpholignic acid, obtained by the action of sulphuric acid on lignine.
