taphrenchyma

From New Latin taphrenchyma.

• enPR: tăfrĕngʹkĭmə, IPA^(key): /tafˈɹɛŋkɪmə/

taphrenchyma (uncountable)

1. (botany, obsolete) Synonym of bothrenchyma
   • 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), “‖ Taphrenchyma”, in A New English Dictionary on Historical Principles (Oxford English Dictionary), volume IX, Part 2 (Su–Th), London: Clarendon Press, →OCLC, page 85, column 3.

A compound of the Ancient Greek words τᾰ́φρος (tắphros, “pit”) +‎ ἔγχῠμᾰ (énkhŭmă, “infusion”).

• (Classical Latin) IPA^(key): [taˈpʰrɛŋ.kʰy.ma]
• (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA^(key): [t̪aˈfrɛŋ.ki.ma]

taphrenchyma n (genitive taphrenchymatos); third declension

1. (New Latin, botany) bothrenchyma, taphrenchyma
   • (Can we find and add a quotation of Charles Morren to this entry?)

Third-declension noun (Greek-type, normal variant, neuter, imparisyllabic non-i-stem).

• → English: taphrenchyma