Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun A liquid elaborated from chyme and used in the formation of the living cells and tissues.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- noun (Biol.) The primitive formative juice, from which the tissues, particularly the cellular tissue, are formed.
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- noun biology The
primitive formative juice , from which thetissues , particularly thecellular tissue, are formed.
Etymologies
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Ancient Greek ἔγχυμα ("infusion")
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Examples
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I close the present one with one more protest against the entirely absurd terms 'par-enchyma,' for common cellular tissue, 'pros-enchyma,' for cellular tissue with longer cells; -- 'cambium' for an early state of _both_, and 'diachyma' for a peculiar position of _one_! [
Proserpina, Volume 2 Studies Of Wayside Flowers John Ruskin 1859
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