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Supportive tissue ordered mainly at the front in layers
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stromata
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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)]
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Stromata is Charlotte Martin 's follow up to On Your Shore and her second full-length release, on her own label. The title is derived from "the connective tissue framework of an organ, gland, or other structure, as distinguished from the tissues performing ...
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n. (plural of stroma English)
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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.) ...
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Clement of Alexandria, in his Stromata, writes it Bedou, as it is pronounced also by the Chingulais.