plerome

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See also: plérôme

English[edit]

Etymology[edit]

Borrowed from German Plerom + English -ome (suffix denoting a mass of something). Plerom is derived from Pleroma (obsolete), from Ancient Greek πλήρωμᾰ (plḗrōma, that which fills, a complement; a filling up, a completing): see further at pleroma.[1]

Noun[edit]

plerome

  1. (botany) The central portion of the apical meristem in a growing plant root or stem which, according to the histogen theory, gives rise to the endodermis and stele.
    Synonym: (archaic or obsolete, rare) pleroma

References[edit]

  1. ^ plerome, n.”, in OED Online Paid subscription required, Oxford, Oxfordshire: Oxford University Press, July 2023; plerome, n.”, in Lexico, Dictionary.com; Oxford University Press, 2019–2022.

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