Pleroma

Quick meaning: Pleroma is a noun meaning A plant of the genus Pleroma.

Meaning

A plant of the genus Pleroma.

More Meanings

1. (Christianity) A state of perfect fullness, especially of God's being as incarnated in Jesus Christ.
2. (Gnosticism, historical) Often preceded by the: the spiritual universe seen as the totality of the essence and powers of God.
3. Synonym of plerome (“the central portion of the apical meristem in a growing plant root or stem which, according to the histogen theory, gives rise to the endodermis and stele”).

Example Sentences

In the pleroma of hyacinth and pea roots, t#95;#123;min#125; increases along the meristem, especially in its basal part[…].

And is all this Cabala too, and only to be uſed when People are to be gulled with noiſy Nothings? i.e. with empty Pleroma's, and ſilent Thunderclaps.

There is a way to comprehend the gnostic's giant onion of a world, the concentric circles, with the Pleroma beckoning there, the white heart of light, the source of that primal vision which for a second or two can recapture paradise.

[I]n the pleroma of the primary meristem of roots there is not only cambium (persistent parenchyma) and procambium (forerunner of fibres and vessels), but pericambium—i.e., a special outer layer of the plerome that remains for a long time as meristem.

Word Forms

• pleromas

Synonyms for pleroma

Depending on context, synonyms include plerome.

Related Words

Related dictionary entries include plerome, peloria, pleiochasium, plurispore, polypodium, parthenium.

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