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tmema en · NOUN

Etymology

From Ancient Greek τμῆμα (tmêma).

Meanings

1. (rare) A segment or section.
   • The benefit of which I now make such honourable mention is this: that as the books of the New Testament had been divided into those sections (tmemata) which we call chapters, he himself divided, or rather subdivided, these sections into those tmematia, or smaller sections, called, by an appellation more approved by others than by him, versicles; for he preferred calling them by the Greek name Tmematia, or its Latin Sectiunculæ. 1842, The Christian Remembrancer, volume 3, page 458:
2. A cell ruptured in setting free a moss-gemma.
   • In the cultures of November and January the tmemata described by Correns were found on the primary protonema after about 2 months. 1952, Transactions of the British Bryological Society, volume 2, page 80:
   • A tmema cell, formed in the ageing chloronema of moss protonema, represents a means of propagation. It leads to the disruption of filaments into fragments. 1994, Satish C. Bhatla, Moss protonema differentiation, page 48:

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