Exarchy

Quick meaning: Exarchy is a noun meaning The jurisdiction of an exarch (any definition); an exarchate.

Meaning

The jurisdiction of an exarch (any definition); an exarchate.

More Meanings

1. (botany) A vascular system in which development starts in the regions farthest from the axis and spreads inward.

Example Sentences

Fossil evidence supports neither the view that exarchy is more primitive than mesarchy, nor the view that mesarchy is more primitive than exarchy.

These exarchies arose in the ninth century when the superiors of monasteries exercised pastoral care of faithful who belonged to churches dependent on the monastery.

Exarchy, endarchy, and mesarchy are all found within comparatively small groups, and the actual course of evolution seems to affect the position of the protoxylems much more freely and rapidly than in the other great groups of vascular plants.

There is no doubt, however, that if endarchy is primitive in the protostelic and immediately derived types, it very rapidly gives place to mesarchy and exarchy in response to various demands, and it is not difficult to show how this may have occurred.

Word Forms

• exarchies

Related Words

Related dictionary entries include archeparchate, archeparch, archonship, archeparchy, archbishopdom, archontate.

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