plerome
See also: plérôme
English
editEtymology
editBorrowed from German Plerom + English -ome (suffix denoting a mass of something). Plerom is derived from Pleroma (obsolete), from Ancient Greek πλήρωμᾰ (plḗrōma, “that which fills, a complement; a filling up, a completing”): see further at pleroma.[1]
Noun
editplerome
- (botany) The central portion of the apical meristem in a growing plant root or stem which, according to the histogen theory, gives rise to the endodermis and stele.
- Synonym: (archaic or obsolete, rare) pleroma
References
edit- ^ “plerome, n.”, in OED Online
, Oxford: Oxford University Press, July 2023; “plerome, n.”, in Lexico, Dictionary.com; Oxford University Press, 2019–2022.
Anagrams
editCategories:
- English terms derived from Proto-Indo-European
- English terms derived from the Proto-Indo-European root *pleh₁-
- English terms derived from the Proto-Indo-European root *-mn̥
- English terms borrowed from German
- English terms derived from German
- English terms derived from Ancient Greek
- English lemmas
- English nouns
- English countable nouns
- English nouns with unknown or uncertain plurals
- en:Botany
- English terms suffixed with -ome
- en:Plant anatomy