chondrenchyma Zool.
(kɒnˈdrɛŋkɪmə)
Also anglicized chondrenchyme (kɒnˈdrɛŋkaɪm, -kɪm).
[f. Gr. χόνδρος (see chondro-) + ἔγχυµα infusion, filling.]
A cartilage-like tissue in certain sponges. Hence chondrenchymatous (ˌkɒndrɛŋˈkɪmətəs) a., consisting of, of the nature of, chondrenchyma.
| 1888 W. J. Sollas Tetractinellida p. xcviii, The meso⁓gloea..is in some very few of the Chondrospongiæ a chondrenchyme. Ibid. p. cli, The mesoderm is in part sarcenchymatous, in part chondrenchymatous. 1900 E. A. Minchin in Lankester Treat. Zool. II. 52 Chondrenchyma. Ibid. 147 With dense sarcenchymatous choanosome and tough chondrenchymatous ectosome. |