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Syllable division and stress derived from spelling — this word is not in the pronouncing dictionary, so no phonetic transcription is shown rather than a guessed one.
parenchyma is a noun meaning "animal tissue that constitutes the essential part of an organ as contrasted with e.g. connective tissue and blood vessels". It carries 2 recorded senses.
animal tissue that constitutes the essential part of an organ as contrasted with e.g. connective tissue and blood vessels
the primary tissue of higher plants composed of thin-walled cells that remain capable of cell division even when mature; constitutes the greater part of leaves, roots, the pulp of fruits, and the pith of stems
Forms marked · are formed by the regular rule rather than recorded in the source data. English keeps a few hundred irregulars and the rest follow the pattern, so the rule is right far more often than not — but it is a rule, and the mark says so.
Definitions, synonyms and semantic relations for parenchyma come from Princeton University’s WordNet. Commonness is measured against a corpus of everyday English. Full sources and licences.