See also: Meristem

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From German Meristem, from Ancient Greek μεριστός (meristós, divided), from μερίζω (merízō), from μέρος (méros) +‎ στέμμα (stémma, wreath, garland). First used in 1858 by Swiss botanist Carl Wilhelm von Nägeli (1817–1891).[1]

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meristem (plural meristems)

  1. (botany) The plant tissue composed of totipotent cells that allows plant growth.
    Coordinate term: cambium
    • 2020, Janet Chernela, quotee, “Life Finds A Way”, in Jonathan Elmore, editor, Fiction and the Sixth Mass Extinction, Rowman & Littlefield, →ISBN:
      By looking back at a past populated by beings of grotesque difference, humans could place themselves at the apical meristem—the growing tip—of the future.

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  1. ^ Carl Nägeli (1858), “Ueber das Wachsthum des Stammes und der Wurzel bei den Gefässpflanzen”, in Beiträge zur Wissenschaftlichen Botanik [Contributions to Scientific Botany] (in German), page 2: “[S]o giebt es auch hauptspächlich zwei Arten von Theilungsgewebe. Das Eine ist dasjenige, woraus anfänglich das ganze Organ besteht, und das oft auch noch späterhin, zuweilen zeitlebens thätig ist; ich will es Meristem nennen.”

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Borrowed from French méristème.

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meristem n (plural meristeme)

  1. meristem

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