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tmema

tmema noun: a segment or section.

Noun

tmema (plural tmemata)

  1. (rare) A segment or section.
    • The benefit of which I now make such honourable mention is this: that as the books of the New Testament had been divided into those sections (tmemata) which we call chapters, he himself divided, or rather subdivided, these sections into those tmematia, or smaller sections, called, by an appellation...1842, The Christian Remembrancer, volume 3, page 458
  2. A cell ruptured in setting free a moss-gemma.
    • In the cultures of November and January the tmemata described by Correns were found on the primary protonema after about 2 months.1952, Transactions of the British Bryological Society, volume 2, page 80
    • A tmema cell, formed in the ageing chloronema of moss protonema, represents a means of propagation. It leads to the disruption of filaments into fragments.1994, Satish C. Bhatla, Moss protonema differentiation, page 48

Forms of tmema

pluraltmemata

Origin of tmema

From Ancient Greek τμῆμα (tmêma).

Questions about tmema

What does tmema mean?
Tmema means a segment or section.
What part of speech is tmema?
Tmema is a noun.
What is the plural of tmema?
The plural of tmema is tmemata.

Words near tmema in the dictionary

  1. TMC
  2. TMD
  3. TMDs
  4. TME
  5. TMEDA
  6. tmema
  7. tmemata
  8. TMEs
  9. tmeses
  10. tmesis
  11. tmetic

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