stroma Meaning, Definition & Usage

  1. noun a mass of fungal tissue that has spore-bearing structures embedded in it or on it
  2. noun the dense colorless framework of a chloroplast
  3. noun the supporting tissue of an organ (as opposed to parenchyma)

WordNet

Stro"ma noun
Etymology
L., a bed covering, Gr. a couch or bed.
Wordforms
plural Stromata
Definitions
  1. (Anat.) (a) The connective tissue or supporting framework of an organ; as, the stroma of the kidney. (b) The spongy, colorless framework of a red blood corpuscle or other cell.
  2. (Bot.) A layer or mass of cellular tissue, especially that part of the thallus of certain fungi which incloses the perithecia.

Webster 1913