Meanings
plural hadromes
- biologyThe portion of the mestome that transports fluids.
In the bundle the hadrome seems to have the place of advantage.
1931, John Merle Coulter, Charles Reid Barnes, Henry Chandler Cowles, A textbook of botany for colleges and universities - Volume 3, page 2101 more example
The cambium commences then to develop new groups of leptome outwards and new groups of hadrome inwardly.
1896, Herman Theodor Holm, Botanical Pamphlets and Reprints - Volume 1, page 508 - biologyThe rudimentary xylem in a cryptogam.
This physiological relationship explains the remarkable facts that where a number of hydroids lie close together the hydrome is regularly permeated by threads of starch, and that all vascular cryptogams possess a hadrome.
1883, Frank Crisp, Francis Jeffrey Bell, Journal of the Royal Microscopical Society, pages 537–538
Origin
From Ancient Greek ἁδρός (hadrós, “thick”) + -ome.
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