pleroma

noun

1. (countable, uncountable)A plant of the genus Pleroma.
2. (archaic, countable, obsolete, rare, uncountable)Synonym of plerome (“the central portion of the apical meristem in a growing plant root or stem which, according to the histogen theory, gives rise to the endodermis and stele”).

   “In his [Jakob Eriksson's] investigations of the meristem (the tissue from which the permanent tissues are formed) by dicotyledonous roots he found four types of growth, […] In the second type only two separate meristem tissues are present in the tips of the roots; a pleroma and a common tissue, from which the primary bark and epidermis and root-cap proceed.”

   “[I]n the pleroma of the primary meristem of roots there is not only cambium (persistent parenchyma) and procambium (forerunner of fibres and vessels), but pericambium—i.e., a special outer layer of the plerome that remains for a long time as meristem.”

   “In the pleroma of hyacinth and pea roots, t#95;#123;min#125; increases along the meristem, especially in its basal part[…].”

3. (countable, uncountable)A state of perfect fullness, especially of God's being as incarnated in Jesus Christ.

   “And is all this Cabala too, and only to be uſed when People are to be gulled with noiſy Nothings? i.e. with empty Pleroma's, and ſilent Thunderclaps.”

name

1. (historical)Often preceded by the: the spiritual universe seen as the totality of the essence and powers of God.

   “There is a way to comprehend the gnostic's giant onion of a world, the concentric circles, with the Pleroma beckoning there, the white heart of light, the source of that primal vision which for a second or two can recapture paradise.”

2. (alt-of, historical)Alternative letter-case form of pleroma (“the spiritual universe seen as the totality of the essence and powers of God”).