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plasmodesmata

plasmodesmata is the plural of plasmodesma.

Meaning of plasmodesma

Noun

plasmodesma (plural plasmodesmas or plasmodesmata)

  1. A microscopic channel traversing the cell walls of plant cells and some algal cells, enabling transport and communication between them.

Words formed from plasmodesmata

Questions about plasmodesmata

What is plasmodesmata the plural of?
Plasmodesmata is the plural of plasmodesma.

Words near plasmodesmata in the dictionary

  1. plasmodes
  2. plasmodesm
  3. plasmodesma
  4. plasmodesmal
  5. plasmodesmas
  6. plasmodesmata
  7. plasmodesmatal
  8. plasmodesms
  9. plasmodia
  10. plasmodial
  11. plasmodially

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Adapted from Wiktionary: plasmodesmata (page history and authors); plasmodesma (page history and authors). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the entry and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.

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