The story
- Ancient Greek · derived fromμεριστός“divided”
- German · borrowed fromMeristem
- English todaymeristem
From German Meristem, from Ancient Greek μεριστός (meristós, “divided”), from μερίζω (merízō), from μέρος (méros) + στέμμα (stémma, “wreath, garland”). First used in 1858 by Swiss botanist Carl Wilhelm von Nägeli (1817–1891).
Words from the same roots
Ancient Greekμεριστός all →
meristoderm
Etymology from Wiktionary, CC BY-SA 4.0.