enchyma

See also: -enchyma

English

Etymology

(deprecated template usage) [etyl] Ancient Greek ἔγχυμα (énkhuma, “infusion”)

Noun

enchyma (uncountable)

1. (biology) The primitive formative juice, from which the tissues, particularly the cellular tissue, are formed.

Part or all of this entry has been imported from the 1913 edition of Webster’s Dictionary, which is now free of copyright and hence in the public domain. The imported definitions may be significantly out of date, and any more recent senses may be completely missing.
(See the entry for “enchyma”, in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: G. & C. Merriam, 1913, →OCLC.)

References

• “enchyma”, in OneLook Dictionary Search.
• “enchyma”, in The Century Dictionary […], New York, N.Y.: The Century Co., 1911, →OCLC.