Stroma Definition

strōmə
stromata
noun
The connective tissue forming the framework or matrix of an organ or part.
Webster's New World
The colorless framework of a red blood corpuscle or other cell.
Webster's New World
The colorless semiliquid material inside a chloroplast, in which the thylakoid membranes are embedded and where the dark reactions of photosynthesis occur.
American Heritage Medicine
In some fungi, a cushionlike mass of hyphae, frequently having fruiting bodies embedded in it.
Webster's New World
pronoun

An island of the northern coast of Scotland.

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Other Word Forms of Stroma

Noun

Singular:
stroma
Plural:
stromata

Origin of Stroma

  • From Latin stromat- (“bed covering"), from Ancient Greek στρώμα (strōma, “bed"), from στόρνυμι (stornymi, “to stretch out")

    From Wiktionary

  • Late Latin strōma mattress, covering from Greek bed ster-2 in Indo-European roots

    From American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition

  • From Old Norse

    From Wiktionary

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