plerome

See also: plérôme

English

Etymology

Borrowed 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

plerome

1. (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

1. “plerome, n.”, in OED Online ⁠, Oxford, Oxfordshire: Oxford University Press, July 2023; “plerome, n.”, in Lexico, Dictionary.com; Oxford University Press, 2019–2022.

Anagrams

• emplore