Definitions
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.
- noun A plant cell that differs noticeably in form from neighboring cells.
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun A term proposed by Sachs for certain individual cells or tissue-elements which differ greatly, as regards their contents, from the surrounding tissues. Such are the resin-cells, tannin-cells, crystal-cells, etc., found in various plants.
- noun In biology, one of the hypothetical, ultimate elements of living protoplasm, similar to the gemmules of Darwin, the physiological units of Herbert Spencer, the biophores of Weismann, etc.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- noun (Bot.) An individual cell, differing greatly from its neighbours in regard to size, structure, or contents.
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- noun botany An isolated
specialised cell found in the midst of an otherwisehomogeneous group of cells in plant tissue.
Etymologies
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idio- + -blast
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Examples
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In all organs, CPT accumulation was detected in epidermal idioblasts, in some glandular trichomes, and in groups of idioblast cells localized in parenchyma tissues.
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In all organs, CPT accumulation was detected in epidermal idioblasts, in some glandular trichomes, and in groups of idioblast cells localized in parenchyma tissues.
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In all organs, CPT accumulation was detected in epidermal idioblasts, in some glandular trichomes, and in groups of idioblast cells localized in parenchyma tissues.
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In all organs, CPT accumulation was detected in epidermal idioblasts, in some glandular trichomes, and in groups of idioblast cells localized in parenchyma tissues.
reesetee commented on the word idioblast
A plant cell that differs greatly from the surrounding cells or tissue.
November 14, 2007