plerome
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See also: plérôme
English
Etymology
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
plerome
- (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
- ^ “plerome, n.”, in OED Online
, Oxford: Oxford University Press, July 2023; “plerome, n.”, in Lexico, Dictionary.com; Oxford University Press, 2019–2022.
