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meristems

meristems is the plural of meristem.

Meaning of meristem

Noun

meristem (plural meristems)

  1. The plant tissue composed of totipotent cells that allows plant growth.
    • 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.2020, Janet Chernela, quotee, “Life Finds A Way”, in Jonathan Elmore, editor, Fiction and the Sixth Mass Extinction, Rowman & Littlefield, →ISBN

Phrases with meristems

Questions about meristems

What is meristems the plural of?
Meristems is the plural of meristem.

Words near meristems in the dictionary

  1. meristemic
  2. meristemless
  3. meristemoid
  4. meristemoidal
  5. meristemoids
  6. meristems
  7. meristic
  8. meristically
  9. meristics
  10. meristoderm
  11. meristoderms

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