Liber

2 definitions found

From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48 [gcide]:

  Liber \Li"ber\ (l[imac]"b[~e]r), n. [L. See {Libel}.] (Bot.)
     The inner bark of plants, lying next to the wood. It usually
     contains a large proportion of woody, fibrous cells, and is,
     therefore, the part from which the fiber of the plant is
     obtained, as that of hemp, etc.
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     {Liber cells}, elongated woody cells found in the liber.
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From Bouvier's Law Dictionary, Revised 6th Ed (1856) [bouvier]:

  LIBER. A book; a principal subdivision of a literary work: thus, the 
  Pandects, or Digest of the Civil Law, is divided into fifty books.