Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun In botany, an imperfect cellular tissue composed of more or less rounded cells and abundant in intercellular spaces.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- noun (Bot.) Tissue composed of spheroidal cells.
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- noun botany
tissue composed ofspheroidal cells
Etymologies
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From Ancient Greek μέρος ("a part") + -enchyma.
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