mitome

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English

Etymology

From Ancient Greek μίτος (mítos, “a thread”) + -ωμα (-ōma). According to the OED, the functional origin of -ome.

Noun

mitome

  1. (biology) The denser part of the protoplasm of a cell.

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 The imported definitions may be significantly out of date, and any more recent senses may be completely missing.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 “mitome”, in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: G. & C. Merriam, 1913, →OCLC.)

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