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 German in 1858, by Karl Wilhelm von Nägeli (1817-1891) in his Beiträge zur Wissenschaftlichen Botanik.

Noun

meristem (plural meristems)

(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)

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

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