parenchyma

1. 1.

   animal tissue that constitutes the essential part of an organ as contrasted with e.g. connective tissue and blood vessels

   Broaderanimal tissue
2. 2.

   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

   Broaderplant tissue

   Narrowerchlorenchyma

Other forms of parenchyma

plural

parenchymas·

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.

Questions about parenchyma

What does parenchyma mean?

parenchyma means "animal tissue that constitutes the essential part of an organ as contrasted with e.g. connective tissue and blood vessels". That is the primary sense; the word has 2 in total, listed in full on this page.

How many syllables are in parenchyma?

parenchyma has 4 syllables: pa-ren-chy-ma. The stress falls on "ren".

Is parenchyma a common word?

parenchyma is banded "Rare" — specialist or archaic — most readers will not have met it. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.