Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun Same as
mesophyl .
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- noun (Bot.) The parenchyma of a leaf between the skin of the two surfaces.
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- noun botany The
parenchyma of aleaf between theskin of the twosurfaces .
Etymologies
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From Ancient Greek words for "middle" and "leaf".
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Examples
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Now, upon making preparations that are sufficiently thin to be transparent, from coal apparently formed of impressions of the leaves of Cordaites, we succeed in distinguishing (in a section perpendicular to the limb) the cuticle and the first row of epidermic cells, the vascular bundles that correspond to the veins and the bands of hypodermic libers; but the loose, thin-walled cells of the mesophyllum are not seen, because they have been crushed by pressure, and their walls touch each other.
Scientific American Supplement, No. 481, March 21, 1885 Various
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