Definitions
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.
- noun A plant cell that differs noticeably in form from neighboring cells.
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun In biology, one of the hypothetical, ultimate elements of living protoplasm, similar to the gemmules of Darwin, the physiological units of Herbert Spencer, the biophores of Weismann, etc.
- noun A term proposed by Sachs for certain individual cells or tissue-elements which differ greatly, as regards their contents, from the surrounding tissues. Such are the resin-cells, tannin-cells, crystal-cells, etc., found in various plants.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- noun (Bot.) An individual cell, differing greatly from its neighbours in regard to size, structure, or contents.
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- noun botany An isolated
specialised cell found in the midst of an otherwisehomogeneous group of cells in plant tissue.
Etymologies
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idio- + -blast
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Examples
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In all organs, CPT accumulation was detected in epidermal idioblasts, in some glandular trichomes, and in groups of idioblast cells localized in parenchyma tissues.
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In all organs, CPT accumulation was detected in epidermal idioblasts, in some glandular trichomes, and in groups of idioblast cells localized in parenchyma tissues.
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In all organs, CPT accumulation was detected in epidermal idioblasts, in some glandular trichomes, and in groups of idioblast cells localized in parenchyma tissues.
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In all organs, CPT accumulation was detected in epidermal idioblasts, in some glandular trichomes, and in groups of idioblast cells localized in parenchyma tissues.
reesetee commented on the word idioblast
A plant cell that differs greatly from the surrounding cells or tissue.
November 14, 2007