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noun
The functional tissue of an organ as distinguished from the connective and supporting tissue.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Usage: countable, uncountable
Topics: anatomy, medicine, sciences
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noun
The cellular tissue, typically soft and succulent, found chiefly in the softer parts of leaves, pulp of fruits, bark and pith of stems, etc.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Usage: countable, uncountable
Topics: biology, botany, natural-sciences
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noun
Cellular tissue lying between the body wall and the organs of invertebrate animals lacking a coelom, such as flatworms.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Usage: countable, uncountable
Topics: biology, natural-sciences, zoology
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noun
animal tissue that constitutes the essential part of an organ as contrasted with e.g. connective tissue and blood vessels
Definition source: Princeton WordNet 3.0
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Broader terms: animal tissue
noun
the primary tissue of higher plants composed of thin-walled cells that remain capable of cell division even when mature; constitutes the greater part of leaves, roots, the pulp of fruits, and the pith of stems
Definition source: Princeton WordNet 3.0
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Broader terms: plant tissue
Narrower terms: chlorenchyma
History
From Ancient Greek παρέγχῠμα (parénkhŭma, “anything poured in beside”), from πᾰρᾰ- (pără-, “beside”) + ἔγχῠμα (énkhŭma, “instillation, content of a vessel”), given by the Greek anatomist Erasistratus to the peculiar substance of the lungs, liver, kidneys, and spleen, as if formed separately by the veins that run into them. By surface analysis, para- + -enchyma.
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