prosenchyma

American  

[pros-eng-kuh-muh] / prɒsˈɛŋ kə mə /

noun

Botany.

1. the tissue characteristic of the woody and bast portions of plants, consisting typically of long, narrow cells with pointed ends.

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prosenchyma British  

/ prɒsˈɛŋkɪmə, ˌprɒsɛnˈkaɪmətəs /

noun

1. a plant tissue consisting of long narrow cells with pointed ends: occurs in conducting tissue

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Other Word Forms

• prosenchymatous adjective

Etymology

Origin of prosenchyma

1825–35; < New Latin < Greek pros- toward, to + énchyma infusion; modeled on parenchyma

Example Sentences

Henceforward, if I ever make botanical quotations, I shall always call parenchyma, By-tis; prosenchyma, To-tis; and diachyma, Through-tis, short for By-tissue, To-tissue, and Through-tissue—then the student will see what all this modern wisdom comes to!

From Proserpina, Volume 2 Studies Of Wayside Flowers by Ruskin, John

The fibrovascular bundles also contain soft-walled prosenchyma cells.

From Scientific American Supplement, No. 497, July 11, 1885 by Various