Tmema
Definition, Meaning & Examples
Part of speech noun
Quick meaning: Tmema is a noun meaning (bryology) A cell ruptured in setting free a moss-gemma.
Meaning
(bryology) A cell ruptured in setting free a moss-gemma.
More Meanings
- (rare) A segment or section.
Example Sentences
In the cultures of November and January the tmemata described by Correns were found on the primary protonema after about 2 months.
A tmema cell, formed in the ageing chloronema of moss protonema, represents a means of propagation. It leads to the disruption of filaments into fragments.
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 more approved by others than by him, versicles; for he preferred calling them by the Greek name Tmematia, or its Latin Sectiunculæ.
Word Forms
- tmemata
Related Words
Related dictionary entries include segement, section, segment, texteme, autosegment, semeion.
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