spherosomen.
/ˈsfɪərə(ʊ)səʊm/, U.S. /ˈsfɪrəˌsoʊm/, /ˈsfɛrəˌsoʊm/ Biology.
A cytoplasmic liquid droplet or cell organelle found in plant tissues, often associated with hydrolytic enzymic activity; the plant structure answering to the lysosome in animal tissues.
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air cell1827
spherosome1954
1954 Biol. Abstr. 28 2398/1 The sphaerosomes are real and permanent cytoplasmic structures, and..are neither artifacts nor temporary storage droplets of fat or other lipoids.
1958 Exper. Cell Res. XV. 611 The spherosomes are seen as opaque white globules 0·7 μ in diameter, or as dark-rimmed spheres.
1976 P. Bell & D. Coombe tr. Strasburger's Textbk. Bot. (new ed.) 16 The nucleus, plastids, mitochondria, spherosomes and golgi bodies remain throughout within the cytoplasm.
Derivatives
spheroˈsomal adj.
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the world > plants > part of plant > cell or aggregate tissue > [adjective] > of types of tissue > of structures in tissue
spherosomal1966
1966 Protoplasma LXII. 220 In the cells studied..spherosomal motion is rapid during the first 24 hr.
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