-enchymacomb. form

Primary stress is attracted to the first syllable of this combining form and vowels may be reduced accordingly.

Origin: A borrowing from Greek. Etymon: Greek ἔγχυμα.

Etymology: < ancient Greek ἔγχυμα infusion < ἐν- en- prefix² + χύμα (see panchymagogue n.). Compare French -enchyme (in e.g. parenchyme (see parenchyme n.), mérenchyme merenchyma n.), German -enchym (in e.g. Pleurenchym pleurenchyma n., Merenchym merenchyma n.).Attested earliest in an apparently isolated 16th-cent. borrowing < Hellenistic Greek (parenchyma n.); subsequently from the first half of the 19th cent., initially in formations after scientific Latin (e.g. prosenchyma n., also pleurenchyma n.). Independent formations are also found in the first half of the 19th cent. (e.g. bothrenchyma n., cinenchyma n.), as are formations after French models (e.g. merenchyma n., ovenchyma n.).

Chiefly Botany and Zoology.

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Forming nouns denoting plant or animal tissue of the type or with the characteristics specified by the first element, as aerenchyma n., parenchyma n., sclerenchyma n., etc.

This is a new entry (OED Third Edition, November 2010; most recently modified version published online December 2018).

单词	-enchyma
释义	-enchymacomb. form Primary stress is attracted to the first syllable of this combining form and vowels may be reduced accordingly. Origin: A borrowing from Greek. Etymon: Greek ἔγχυμα. Etymology: < ancient Greek ἔγχυμα infusion < ἐν- en- prefix² + χύμα (see panchymagogue n.). Compare French -enchyme (in e.g. parenchyme (see parenchyme n.), mérenchyme merenchyma n.), German -enchym (in e.g. Pleurenchym pleurenchyma n., Merenchym merenchyma n.).Attested earliest in an apparently isolated 16th-cent. borrowing < Hellenistic Greek (parenchyma n.); subsequently from the first half of the 19th cent., initially in formations after scientific Latin (e.g. prosenchyma n., also pleurenchyma n.). Independent formations are also found in the first half of the 19th cent. (e.g. bothrenchyma n., cinenchyma n.), as are formations after French models (e.g. merenchyma n., ovenchyma n.). Chiefly Botany and Zoology. Categories » Forming nouns denoting plant or animal tissue of the type or with the characteristics specified by the first element, as aerenchyma n., parenchyma n., sclerenchyma n., etc. This is a new entry (OED Third Edition, November 2010; most recently modified version published online December 2018). < comb. form
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