MERISTEM - Definition

Pronunciation:		'meri`stem
WordNet Dictionary

	Definition:	[n] undifferentiated tissue from which new cells are formed, as at the tip of a stem or root

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	See Also:	plant tissue

Webster's 1913 Dictionary

	Definition:	\Mer"i*stem\, n. [Gr. ? divisible.] (Bot.) A tissue of growing cells, or cells capable of further division.

Biology Dictionary

	Definition:	Growing regions of a plant in which cells that have retained their embryonic characteristics, or reverted to them secondarily, divide to produce new cells.