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Samuel Johnson's Dictionary

  1. Parenchymatous, Parenchymousadjective

    Relating to the parenchyma; spongy.

    Etymology: from parenchyma.

    Ten thousand seeds of the plant, hart’s-tongue, hardly make the bulk of a pepper corn. Now the covers and true body of each seed, the parenchymatous and ligneous parts of both moderately multiplied, afford an hundred thousand millions of formed atoms in the space of a pepper-corn. Nehemiah Grew.

    Those parts, formerly reckoned parenchymatous, are now found to be bundles of exceedingly small threads. George Cheyne.

Webster Dictionary

  1. Parenchymousadjective

    of, pertaining to, or connected with, the parenchyma of a tissue or an organ; as, parenchymatous degeneration

  2. Etymology: [Cf. F. parenchymateux.]

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Numerology

  1. Chaldean Numerology

    The numerical value of parenchymous in Chaldean Numerology is: 5

  2. Pythagorean Numerology

    The numerical value of parenchymous in Pythagorean Numerology is: 5

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