Emily Dickinson Lexicon

PA-REN-CHY-MA'TA, n. [plur.]

The order of Entozoa, comprising those species in which the body is filled with a cellular substance, or even with a continuous parenchyma, the only alimentary organ it contains being ramified canals, which distribute nourishment to its different points, and which in most of them, originate from suckers visible externally.