Bot. Also cinenchym. [f. Gr. κῑν-εῖν to move + ἔγχῠμα infusion, after parenchyma, etc.] Laticiferous tissue; tissue forming vessels containing latex or milky juice.
1835. Lindley, Introd. Bot. (1848), I. 21. Laticiferous tissue, or Cinenchym.
1876. Encycl. Brit. (ed. 9), IV. 87/2. The latex exhibits movements which have given origin to the name cinenchyma applied to laticiferous tissue by some authors.
Hence Cinenchymatous a., belonging to the cinenchyma.
1835. Lindley, Introd. Bot. (1848), II. 331. The cinenchymatous vessels, in which … cyclosis goes on.
