释义
n.
Botany a region of plant tissue, found chiefly at the growing tips of roots and shoots and in the cambium, consisting of actively dividing cells forming new tissue
【植】 分生组织。
词源
"late 19th cent.: formed irregularly from Greek meristos ‘divisible', from merizein ‘divide into parts', from meros ‘part'. The suffix -em is on the pattern of words such as xylem."