TELOME


Meaning of TELOME in English

transcription, транскрипция: [ ˈtē-ˌlōm ]

noun

Etymology: International Scientific Vocabulary tel- + -ome

Date: 1935

: a hypothetical plant structure in a theory of the evolution of leaves and sporophylls in vascular plants that consists of one of the vegetative or reproductive terminal branchlets of a dichotomously branched axis

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