stereomen.
/ˈstɛriːəʊm/ 1. Botany. Schwendener's term for those elements of a fibro-vascular bundle which contribute to its strength or stability; ‘mechanical’ tissue: cf. mestome n.
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parenchyma1651
parenchyme1811
suberin1815
mesophyllum1832
prosenchyma1832
cinenchyma1835
bothrenchyma1838
merenchyma1839
pleurenchyma1839
mesophyll1848
trachenchyma1848
inenchyma1851
sterenchyma1856
collenchyma1857
rhytidome1861
procambium1872
palisade tissue1875
trace1875
taphrenchyma1876
phellem1877
ground-tissue1882
palisade parenchyma1882
stone-sclerenchyma1884
stereome1885
aerenchyma1889
chlorenchyma1894
1885 G. L. Goodale in A. Gray & G. L. Goodale Bot. Text-bk. (ed. 6) II. i. v. 191 To the elements which impart strength to a bundle Schwendener has given the name stereom.
1887 W. Hillhouse tr. E. Strasburger Handbk. Pract. Bot. 88 The system of mechanical tissue, the Stereome.
1898 H. C. Porter tr. E. Strasburger et al. Text-bk. Bot. 169 Mechanical Tissues (Stereome).
2. Zoology. A proposed general term for the hard strengthening or skeletal tissues of animals in general, including invertebrates: see quot. 1891.
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1891 F. A. Bather in Nature 12 Feb. 345/1 Among wants long felt..is some word that shall express for Invertebrata the idea that the word bone expresses for Vertebrata... I..venture to suggest the adoption of the word Stereom... This word..may..be thus defined: any hard calcareous tissue forming skeletal structures in Metazoa Invertebrata, and in Protozoa.
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