Parenchyma Definition

pə-rĕngkə-mə
noun
The essential or functional tissue of an organ, as distinguished from its connective tissue, blood vessels, etc.
Webster's New World
A soft tissue made up of thin-walled, undifferentiated living cells with air spaces between them, constituting the chief substance of plant leaves and roots, the pulp of fruits, the central portion of stems, etc.
Webster's New World
A spongy mass of tissue packing the spaces between the organs of some invertebrates.
Webster's New World

(animal biology) The functional part of an organ, as opposed to supporting tissue.

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Other Word Forms of Parenchyma

Noun

Singular:
parenchyma
Plural:
parenchymas, parenchymata

Origin of Parenchyma

  • New Latin from Greek parenkhuma visceral flesh from parenkhein to pour in beside para- beside para–1 en- in en in Indo-European roots khein to pour gheu- in Indo-European roots

    From American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition

  • From Ancient Greek παρέγχυμα (parenkhuma, “anything poured in beside"), from παρά 'alongside' + -enchyma.

    From Wiktionary

Parenchyma Sentence Examples

  • This passes gradually into the thinner-walled parenchyma of the inner cortex.

  • Distinctive yellow spots can be seen as a result of dead palisade parenchyma cells.

  • The sieve-tubes differ, however, from the tracheids in being immediately associated, apparently constantly, not with starchy parenchyma, but with parenchymatous cells, containing particularly abundant proteid contents, which seem to have a function intimately connected with the conducting function of the sieve-tubes, and which we may call proteid-cells.

  • Associated with it are other tissues, consisting of parenchyma, mainly starchy, and in the Phanerogams particularly, of special stereom.

  • The sieve-tubes, with their accompanying parenchyma or stereom, constitute the tissue called phloem.

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Words Starting With

PPAPAR

Words Ending With

AMAYMA

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