First Known Use: 1935
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telome
noun te·lome \ˈtē-ˌlōm\
Definition of TELOME
: a hypothetical plant structure in a theory of the evolution of leaves and sporophylls in vascular plants that consists of one of the vegetative or reproductive terminal branchlets of a dichotomously branched axis
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Origin of TELOME
International Scientific Vocabulary tel- + -ome
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