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Wordnet 3.0

NOUN (3)

1. a mass of fungal tissue that has spore-bearing structures embedded in it or on it;

2. the dense colorless framework of a chloroplast;

3. the supporting tissue of an organ (as opposed to parenchyma);


The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48:

Stroma \Stro"ma\, n.; pl. Stromata. [L., a bed covering, Gr. ? a couch or bed.] 1. (Anat.) (a) The connective tissue or supporting framework of an organ; as, the stroma of the kidney. (b) The spongy, colorless framework of a red blood corpuscle or other cell. [1913 Webster] 2. (Bot.) A layer or mass of cellular tissue, especially that part of the thallus of certain fungi which incloses the perithecia. [1913 Webster]
WordNet (r) 3.0 (2006):

stroma n 1: a mass of fungal tissue that has spore-bearing structures embedded in it or on it 2: the dense colorless framework of a chloroplast 3: the supporting tissue of an organ (as opposed to parenchyma)