meristem
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See also: Meristem
Etymology
From German Meristem, from Ancient Greek μεριστός (meristós, “divided”), from μερίζω (merízō), from μέρος (méros) + στέμμα (stémma, “wreath, garland”). First used in 1858 by Swiss botanist Carl Wilhelm von Nägeli (1817–1891).[1]
Noun
meristem (plural meristems)
- (botany) The plant tissue composed of totipotent cells that allows plant growth.
- Coordinate term: cambium
- 2020, Janet Chernela, quotee, “Life Finds A Way”, in Jonathan Elmore, editor, Fiction and the Sixth Mass Extinction, Rowman & Littlefield, →ISBN:
- By looking back at a past populated by beings of grotesque difference, humans could place themselves at the apical meristem—the growing tip—of the future.
Derived terms
- adaxial meristem
- apical meristem
- intercalary meristem
- lateral meristem
- meristematic, meristematically
- plate meristem
Translations
zone of active cell division
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References
- Carl Nägeli (1858) “Ueber das Wachsthum des Stammes und der Wurzel bei den Gefässpflanzen”, in Beiträge zur Wissenschaftlichen Botanik [Contributions to Scientific Botany] (in German), page 2: “[S]o giebt es auch hauptspächlich zwei Arten von Theilungsgewebe. Das Eine ist dasjenige, woraus anfänglich das ganze Organ besteht, und das oft auch noch späterhin, zuweilen zeitlebens thätig ist; ich will es Meristem nennen.”
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