mesophyll
/ˈmɛsə(ʊ)fɪl/noun
mesophyll is a noun meaning “The soft internal parenchyma of a leaf” (English Wiktionary, September 2026). It is spelled M-E-S-O-P-H-Y-L-L, and it appears about once in every 33 million words in written English (wordfreq, 2021 data). The plural of mesophyll is mesophylls.
What does mesophyll mean?
noun
- 1
The soft internal parenchyma of a leaf.
- 2
A leaf of middling size, between macrophyll and microphyll.
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).
How do you pronounce mesophyll?
- US /ˈmɛsə(ʊ)fɪl/
- US /ˈmɛzə(ʊ)fɪl/
- US /ˈmiːsə(ʊ)fɪl/
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).
Forms of mesophyll
- mesophylls plural
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).
How common is mesophyll?
Mesophyll appears about once in every 33 million words in written English, the 176,009th most frequent word form in the list.
Source: written frequency: wordfreq 3.1 (a 2021 snapshot of Wikipedia, subtitles, news, books, web text and social media).
Where does mesophyll come from?
From meso- + -phyll.
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).