meristem

See also: Meristem

English

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).

Noun

meristem (plural meristems)

1. (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

• Dutch: meristeem (nl) n
• Esperanto: meristemo
• Finnish: kasvusolukko
• German: Meristem (de) n
• Greek: μερίστωμα (el) n (merístoma)
• Hungarian: merisztéma
• Ido: meristemo (io)
• (deprecated template usage) {{trans-mid}}
• Italian: meristema m
• Japanese: 分裂組織 (ja) (ぶんれつそしき, bunretsusoshiki)
• Korean: 분열조직 (ko) (bunyeoljojik)
• Polish: tkanka twórcza f, merystem m
• Portuguese: meristema m
• Spanish: meristemo (es) m, meristema m
• Tagalog: hatianan

Anagrams

• mimester, mismeter, mismetre, stemmier

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Romanian

Etymology

From French méristème.

Noun

meristem n (plural meristeme)

1. meristem

Declension

Declension of meristem

	singular		plural
	indefinite articulation	definite articulation	indefinite articulation	definite articulation
nominative/accusative	(un) meristem	meristemul	(niște) meristeme	meristemele
genitive/dative	(unui) meristem	meristemului	(unor) meristeme	meristemelor
vocative	meristemule		meristemelor