bothrenchyma

• bothrenchym

A compound of the Ancient Greek words βόθρος (bóthros, “pit”) +‎ ἔγχῠμᾰ (énkhŭmă, “infusion”), whence enchyma and -enchyma. Compare parenchyma.

• enPR: bŏthrĕngʹkĭmə, IPA^(key): /bɒθˈɹɛŋkɪmə/

bothrenchyma (uncountable)

1. (botany, obsolete) Dotted or pitted ducts or vessels forming the pores seen in many kinds of wood.

   Synonym: taphrenchyma

   • 1848, John Lindley, An Introduction to Botany, fourth edition, volume I, page 56:

     Sect. II. — Of Pitted Tissue, or Bothrenchym.*
     * Βοθρος, a little pit.

   • 1870, Robert Bentley, A Manual of Botany, second edition, page 40:

     Pitted or Dotted Vessels. — These constitute by their combination Pitted Tissue, the Porous Tissue of some authors, or the Vasiform Tissue, Bothrenchyma, Taphrenchyma of others; the two latter names being derived from Greek words signifying pits.

   • 1876, John Hutton Balfour, in Encyclopædia Britannica, ninth edition, volume IV, page 87/1:

     The names of bothrenchyma and taphrenchyma have been given to a tissue composed of such cells.

• James A. H. Murray et al., editors (1884–1928), “Bothrenchyma”, in A New English Dictionary on Historical Principles (Oxford English Dictionary), volume I (A–B), London: Clarendon Press, →OCLC, page 1013, column 3.
• “‖Both-renʹchy-ma, n.”, in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: G. & C. Merriam, 1913, →OCLC.
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