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tmemata

tmemata is the plural of tmema.

Meaning of tmema

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

Questions about tmemata

What is tmemata the plural of?
Tmemata is the plural of tmema.

Words near tmemata in the dictionary

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

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