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adj
Average-bodied; neither broad nor narrow in proportion to height or length.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
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noun
A folded invagination in the plasma membrane of bacteria, produced by the chemical fixation techniques used to prepare samples for electron microscopy, but previously thought to be part of the normal structure of the cell.
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History
From meso- + -some.
