stroma

See also: Stroma and stromą

English

Etymology

From Latin stromat- (“bed covering”), from Ancient Greek στρῶμα (strôma, “bed”), from στόρνυμι (stórnumi, “to stretch out”).

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /stɹoʊmə/

• Audio (Southern England):

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Noun

stroma (plural stromata)

1. (anatomy) The tissue structure of an organ, etc., that serves to support it.

Antonyms

• parenchyma

Derived terms

• vascular stroma

 

Related terms

• pseudostroma
• stromagenesis
• stromatal
• stromatization

Translations

the tissue structure of an organ

• Chinese:

  Mandarin: 基質／基质 (zh) (jīzhì)

• Italian: stroma (it) m
• Kazakh: строма (stroma)
• Latin: stroma n
• Malayalam: പീഠിക (ml) (pīṭhika)
• Maori: wēkāriki
• Portuguese: estroma m

See also

• trabecula

Anagrams

• Martos, Mastro, Mostar, Mostra, stroam, to arms, tormas

French

Noun

stroma m (plural stromas)

1. stroma

Further reading

• “stroma”, in Trésor de la langue française informatisé [Digitized Treasury of the French Language], 2012.

Italian

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˈstrɔ.ma/
• Rhymes: -ɔma
• Hyphenation: strò‧ma

Noun

stroma m (plural stromi)

1. stroma

Related terms

• stromale
• stromatico

Anagrams

• mastro, mostra, smorta

Polish

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˈstrɔ.ma/
• Rhymes: -ɔma
• Syllabification: stro‧ma

Adjective

stroma

1. feminine nominative/vocative singular of stromy