sarcenchymen.
/sɑːˈsɛŋkʌɪm/ Sollas's name for a connective tissue in certain sponges (see quot.).
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1887 W. J. Sollas in Encycl. Brit. XXII. 419/2 In the higher sponges (Geodia, Stelletta) it [sc. the mesoderm] consists of small polygonal granular cells either closely contiguous or separated by a very small quantity of structureless jelly, and in this form may be termed sarcenchyme.
1898 A. Sedgwick Student's Text-bk. Zool. I. 79.
Derivatives
sarcenˈchymatous adj.
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1888 W. J. Sollas Tetractinellida p. cli The mesoderm is in part sarcenchymatous, in part chondrenchymatous.
1900 E. A. Minchin in Lankester Treat. Zool. II. 147 With dense sarcenchymatous choanosome and tough chondrenchymatous ectosome.
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