primary tissue

American  

noun

Botany.

1. any tissue resulting directly from differentiation of an apical meristem.

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Etymology

Origin of primary tissue

First recorded in 1870–75

Example Sentences

This explains polySia’s function in regions of the brain that are rearranging to form new neural architecture, as well as in metastatic cancer cells that are detaching from their primary tissue.

From Salon

What is more, several of those sequences were expressed at different levels in regenerated tissue than in primary tissue.

From Scientific American

According to this interpretation the primary tissue of experience of the emotional order, felt as an unanalysed complex, is generated by the stimulation of the sensorium by afferent or incoming physiological impulses from the special senses, from the organs concerned in the responsive behaviour, from the viscere and vaso-motor system.

From Project Gutenberg

According to this interpretation the primary tissue of experience of the emotional order, felt as an unanalysed complex, is generated by the stimulation of the sensorium by afferent or incoming physiological impulses from the special senses, from the organs concerned in the responsive behaviour, from the viscera and vaso-motor system.

From Project Gutenberg