Parenchyma

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The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 4th Edition
  • n. Anatomy The tissue characteristic of an organ, as distinguished from associated connective or supporting tissues.
  • n. Botany The primary tissue of higher plants, composed of thin-walled cells and forming the greater part of leaves, roots, the pulp of fruit, and the pith of stems.
  • Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License
  • n. The functional part of an organ, as opposed to supporting tissue.
  • n. The ground tissue making up most of the non-woody parts of a plant.
  • the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English
  • n. The soft cellular substance of the tissues of plants and animals, like the pulp of leaves, the soft tissue of glands, and the like.
  • The Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia
  • n. In anatomy and zoology: The proper tissue or substance of any part or organ, as distinguished from the connective or other sustentacular tissue which it contains.
  • n. The undifferentiated body-substance or chyme-mass of the unicellular animal, as an infusorian; indistinguishable cell-substance; endoplasm.
  • n. The general substance of the interior of the parenchymatous worms.
  • n. In botany, the fundamental cellular tissue of plants: contradistinguished from prosenchyma, or fibrovascular tissue.
  • n. Also parenchyme.
  • WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
  • n. the primary tissue of higher plants composed of thin-walled cells that remain capable of cell division even when mature; constitutes the greater part of leaves, roots, the pulp of fruits, and the pith of stems
  • n. animal tissue that constitutes the essential part of an organ as contrasted with e.g. connective tissue and blood vessels
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