An alternative or variant term for cystenchyma, referring to plant tissue with cavities that aid in flotation.
A variant spelling of cystenchyma, using the alternative Greek root-combining form chyma instead of enchyma. Both forms were used interchangeably in early botanical texts.
The fact that botanists had two different spellings—cystenchyma and cystenchyme—shows how scientific terminology was still being standardized in the 1800s, and eventually one spelling won out over the other, just like how 'doughnut' beat 'donut' in some English-speaking countries.
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