enchyma
See also: -enchyma
English
Etymology
Ancient Greek ἔγχυμα (énkhuma, “infusion”)
Noun
enchyma (uncountable)
- (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 The imported definitions may be significantly out of date, and any more recent senses may be completely missing.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, G. & C. Merriam, 1913.)