primary tissue

noun

, Botany.

1. any tissue resulting directly from differentiation of an apical meristem.

Word History and Origins

Origin of primary tissue¹

First recorded in 1870–75

Example Sentences

This explains polySia’s function in regions of the brain that are rearranging to form new neural architecture, as well as in metastatic cancer cells that are detaching from their primary tissue.

From Salon

What is more, several of those sequences were expressed at different levels in regenerated tissue than in primary tissue.

From Scientific American

Furthermore, even if we grant that such behaviour is intelligently acquired, that is to say arises through the modification of hereditary instincts and emotions, the fact remains that only through these instinctive and emotional data is afforded the primary tissue of the experience which is susceptible of such modification.

From Project Gutenberg

If then we use the term "instinctive" so as to comprise all congenital modes of behaviour which contribute to experience, we are in a position to grasp the view that the net result in consciousness constitutes what we may term the primary tissue of experience.

From Project Gutenberg

The nature and manner of organisation of this primary tissue of experience are dependent on inherited biological aptitudes; but they are from the outset onwards subject to secondary development dependent on acquired aptitudes.

From Project Gutenberg