Bot. Also anglicized as trachenchym. [f. TRACHEA + Gr. ἔγχυμα infusion, after PARENCHYMA.] Tracheary tissue: see TRACHEARY 2.
1848. Lindley, Introd. Bot. (ed. 4), I. 21. Vascular tissue, or Trachenchym.
1861. Bentley, Man. Bot., 34. Spiral vessels are sometimes called Tracheæ or Trachenchyma, from their resemblance to the tracheæ or air-tubes of insects.
