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Meristem vs Callus - What's the difference?

meristem | callus |

As nouns the difference between meristem and callus

is that meristem is meristem (zone of active cell division) while callus is a hardened area of the skin (especially on the foot or hand) caused by repeated friction, wear or use.

As a verb callus is

to form such hardened tissue.

meristem

English

Noun

(en noun)
  • (botany) The plant tissue composed of totipotent cells that allows plant growth.

    • Derived terms

    * meristematic, meristematically * adaxial meristem * apical meristem * intercalary meristem * lateral meristem * plate meristem

    callus

    English

    (wikipedia callus)

    Noun

    (en-noun)
  • A hardened area of the skin (especially on the foot or hand) caused by repeated friction, wear or use.
  • * 2011 ,David Foster Wallace The Pale King , page 17:
    • Sylvanshine had once been on a first date with a Xerox rep who had complex and slightly repulsive patterns of callus on her fingers from playing the banjo semi-professionally
  • The material of repair in fractures of bone; a substance exuded at the site of fracture, which is at first soft or cartilaginous in consistency, but is ultimately converted into true bone and unites the fragments into a single piece.
  • (botany) The new formation over the end of a cutting, before it puts out rootlets.

    • Verb

  • To form such hardened tissue