meristem

See also: Meristem

English

Etymology

From the Ancient Greek μεριστός (meristós, “divided”), from μερίζω (merízō), from μέρος (méros), plus στέμμα (stémma, “wreath, garland”). First used (deprecated template usage) [etyl] German in 1858, by Karl Wilhelm von Nägeli (1817-1891) in his Beiträge zur Wissenschaftlichen Botanik.

Noun

meristem (plural meristems)

1. (botany) The plant tissue composed of totipotent cells that allows plant growth.

Derived terms

• adaxial meristem
• apical meristem
• intercalary meristem
• lateral meristem
• meristematic, meristematically
• plate meristem

 

Translations

zone of active cell division

• Dutch: meristeem 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, stemmier