Noun: meristem
| Singular | meristem |
| Plural | meristems |
Sample Sentences
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By looking back at a past populated by beings of grotesque difference, humans could place themselves at the apical meristem—the growing tip—of the future. [2020, Janet Chernela, quotee, “Life Finds A Way”, in Jonathan Elmore, editor, Fiction and the Sixth Mass Extinction, Rowman & Littlefield, →ISBN:]
Nouns inflected like meristem
soldier's woundwort,
Nicosian,
whopper,
greypate,
tactile sign language,
chronotrope,
Rosie Lee,
dissentient,
photoinactivator,
sulphonediimine,
coastal waterfall,
residuary devise,
bituminization,
nitrosonaphthol,
smṛiti,
geosphere,
backscreen,
mensuralist,
flocculate,
flocculant, etc. (List truncated at 20 nouns)
Etymology
From German Meristem, from Ancient Greek μεριστός (meristós, “divided”), from μερίζω (merízō), from μέρος (méros) + στέμμα (stémma, “wreath, garland”). First used in 1858 by Swiss botanist Carl Wilhelm von Nägeli (1817–1891). See: German Nouns '
Meristem'.
Verbs referencing "meristem"
Finnish Nouns
meristeemi, Dutch Nouns
meristeem.