tmema

English

Etymology

From Ancient Greek τμῆμα (tmêma).

Noun

tmema (plural tmemata)

1. segment; section
   • 1842, The Christian Remembrancer, volume 3, page 458:

     The benefit of which I now make such honourable mention is this: that as the books of the New Testament had been divided into those sections (tmemata) which we call chapters, he himself divided, or rather subdivided, these sections into those tmematia, or smaller sections, called, by an appellation more approved by others than by him, versicles; for he preferred calling them by the Greek name Tmematia, or its Latin Sectiunculæ.

   • 1952, Transactions of the British Bryological Society, volume 2, page 80:

     In the cultures of November and January the tmemata described by Correns were found on the primary protonema after about 2 months.

   • 1994, Satish C. Bhatla, Moss protonema differentiation, page 48:

     A tmema cell, formed in the ageing chloronema of moss protonema, represents a means of propagation. It leads to the disruption of filaments into fragments.