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stroma
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Stroma , in botany , refers to the colorless fluid surrounding the grana within the chloroplast . Within the stroma are grana , stacks of thylakoids , the sub-organelles, the daughter cells, where photosynthesis is commenced before the chemical changes ...
WordNet
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n. the dense colorless framework of a chloroplast the supporting tissue of an organ (as opposed to parenchyma) [also: stromata (pl)]
Wiktionary
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n. (context anatomy English) the tissue structure of an organ, etc., that serves to support it
The Collaborative International Dictionary
Word definitions in The Collaborative International Dictionary
Stroma \Stro"ma\, n.; pl. Stromata . [L., a bed covering, Gr. ? a couch or bed.] (Anat.) The connective tissue or supporting framework of an organ; as, the stroma of the kidney. The spongy, colorless framework of a red blood corpuscle or other cell. (Bot.) ...
Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
Word definitions in Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
1835 in anatomy, plural stromae , Modern Latin, from Latin stroma "bed covering," from Greek stroma "coverlet, covering, mattress, anything spread out for lying or sitting on" (see structure (n.)).
Usage examples of stroma.
They barged it down the Stroma River and along the coast, then landed it in the harbor.
Thurso--Fog--Wrecked in Pentland Firth--Escaped to Stroma Island--Subsequently to Wick.
Providentially those skilled men did avoid it, and soon we stood upon the rocky shores of Stroma, which personally I thought a very pleasant place.
The Primorye had altered round to port, rounding Stroma, and for a while she was blanked off from sight by the ships ahead.
The stroma, which forms only about one tenth of the solid matter of the corpuscles, serves as a contrivance for holding the hemoglobin.
Point are the origin of the Merry Men of Mey, while off the island of Stroma occurs the whirlpool of the Swalchie, and off the Orcadian Swona is the vortex of the Wells of Swona.
Nor has the microscope discovered in the demented any exudation or addition to the stroma of the brain, or any change in size, shape, or proportional number of its cells.
Point are the origin of the Merry Men of Mey, while off the island of Stroma occurs the whirlpool of the Swalchie, and off the Orcadian Swona is the vortex of the Wells of Swona.
That these represented the planets, we are assured by Clemens of Alexandria, in his Stromata, and by Philo Judaeus.
Clement of Alexandria, in his Stromata, writes it Bedou, as it is pronounced also by the Chingulais.