The story
- Ancient Greek · derived fromλῆμμα“anything received”
- English todayenchylema
From enchyma + Ancient Greek λῆμμα (lêmma, “anything received”).
Etymology from Wiktionary, CC BY-SA 4.0.
Today it means: The semifluid, nearly transparent, and homogeneous matter forming the cell sap, or nuclear sap, supported by the linin network and constituting with it the cytoplasm or nucleoplasm. Full definition →
From enchyma + Ancient Greek λῆμμα (lêmma, “anything received”).
Etymology from Wiktionary, CC BY-SA 4.0.