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Rice can survive flooding by fast internodal growth—basically a quick growth spurt that raises its leaves above water.

From Science Magazine • Jul. 12, 2018

This impulse spreads from its initiation in the SA node throughout the atria through specialized internodal pathways, to the atrial myocardial contractile cells and the atrioventricular node.

From Textbooks • Jun. 19, 2013

One tree, as a rule, yields enough sap to fill three internodal segments of bamboo, each 50 cm. long by 3–5 cm. in diameter.

From The Medicinal Plants of the Philippines by Thomas, Jerome Beers

An interesting case in this connection is afforded by the internodal cells of the Characeae, which possess only vegetative functions.

From Darwin and Modern Science by Seward, A. C. (Albert Charles)

The internodal parts will not often divide so as to form separate individual plants; sometimes, however, this happens; it is said that the smallest piece of Torenia asiatica, for instance, will grow.

From Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 13, Slice 7 "Horticulture" to "Hudson Bay" by Various