Definition of Aerenchyma

1. Noun. (botany) A spongy, airy tissue founds especially in the roots of aquatic plants. ¹

¹ Source: wiktionary.com

Definition of Aerenchyma

1. [n -S]

Medical Definition of Aerenchyma

1. In plants, tissue incorporating large, gas-filled spaces interspersed with the cells in a characteristic pattern. (09 Oct 1997)

Lexicographical Neighbors of Aerenchyma

aequorins
aer-
aeratable
aerate
aerated
aerates
aerating
aeration
aeration basin
aeration zone
aeration zones
aerations
aerator
aerators
aercyst
aerenchyma (current term)
aerenchymae
aerenchymas
aerenchymous tissue
aerendocardia
aerial
aerial cableway
aerial camera
aerial ladder
aerial ladder truck
aerial mycelium
aerial photography
aerial ping pong
aerial railway
aerial root

Literary usage of Aerenchyma

Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:

1. Plant-geography Upon a Physiological Basis by Andreas Franz Wilhelm Schimper (1903)
"Devices for the absorption and transport of oxygen in aquatic plants. aerenchyma and other aerating tissues. Pneumatophores. ..."

2. A Textbook of Botany for Colleges and Universities by John Merle Coulter, Charles Reid Barnes, Henry Chandler Cowles (1911)
"In each case the mature tissue is made up of cells arranged in radial rows, but in aerenchyma capacious air spaces are interspersed regularly, while cork is ..."

3. The American Botanist edited by Willard Nelson Clute (1906)
"aerenchyma.—One of the least known of plant tissues is that which goes by the name of ... aerenchyma is usually if not always confined to water plants. ..."

4. Botanical Gazette by University of Chicago, JSTOR (Organization) (1902)
"The tissue of the inner side of the filament forms aerenchyma, thus being able to keep pace with the curving of the bundle without leaving any great hollow. ..."

5. Strasburger's Text-book of Botany by Eduard Strasburger, Hans Fitting (1921)
"Such tissue is termed aerenchyma. Since its wide air-passages serve for the storage of air, and allow of ready diffusion of gases within the body of the ..."

6. ... The Teaching of Biology in the Secondary School by Francis Ernest Lloyd, Maurice Alpheus Bigelow (1904)
"Note the spongy texture of many submerged roots, due to the development of aerenchyma (respiratory tissue). (Submerge willow twigs—-aerenchyma from ..."

7. Science by American Association for the Advancement of Science (1903)
"... the one-layered plates of parenchyma that make up the aerenchyma (breathing tissue) contain transversely placed, spindle-shaped, elongated cells [almost ..."

8. Science by American Association for the Advancement of Science (1904)
"tures, such as galls, and supposedly beneficial structures, such as aerenchyma of water plants, undifferentiated mesophyll of shade plants, etc. ..."

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