mestome sheath
Botany
noun
A sheath of relatively thick-walled cells, without chloroplasts, situated within the parenchymatous bundle sheath in certain grasses.
Origin
1920s; earliest use found in Arthur Eames (b. 1881). After German Mestomscheide from Mestom + Scheide.
- cell sheath
- cell spot
- cell strain
- cell substance
- cell theory
- cell therapy
- cell transformation
- cell tray
- cellucotton
- cellular
- cellular automaton
- cellular blind
- cellular concrete
- cellular immune response
- cellular immunity
- cellularisation
- cellularise
- cellularised
- cellularity
- cellularization
- cellularize
- cellularized
- cellular logic
- cellular membrane
- cellular membranous