[ mal'pɪgɪən ]
■ noun Zoology & Anatomy a layer in the epidermis in which skin cells are continually formed by division.
Origin
C19: named after the 17th-cent. Italian microscopist Marcello Malpighi .
[ mal'pɪgɪən ]
■ noun Zoology & Anatomy a layer in the epidermis in which skin cells are continually formed by division.
Origin
C19: named after the 17th-cent. Italian microscopist Marcello Malpighi .
Concise Oxford English vocab. Сжатый оксфордский словарь английского языка. 2004