meristem

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).[1]

Noun

meristem (plural meristems)

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

   Coordinate term: cambium

   • 2020, quoting Janet Chernela, “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) 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

References

1. Carl Nägeli (1858), “Ueber das Wachsthum des Stammes und der Wurzel bei den Gefässpflanzen”, in Beiträge zur Wissenschaftlichen Botanik [Contributions to Scientific Botany] (in German), page 2: “[S]o giebt es auch hauptspächlich zwei Arten von Theilungsgewebe. Das Eine ist dasjenige, woraus anfänglich das ganze Organ besteht, und das oft auch noch späterhin, zuweilen zeitlebens thätig ist; ich will es Meristem nennen.”

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