Dunwandig

Dunwandig is a Dutch adjective meaning having thin walls. It is used mainly in scientific contexts such as biology, histology, and botany to describe cells, tissues, or structures whose walls or enclosing membranes are relatively thin. The term is formed from dun (thin) and wandig (walled), and it serves to distinguish between structures with comparatively thin versus thicker walls. In botany, common usages include phrases like dunwandige celwanden (thin-walled cell walls) or dunwandig weefsel (thin-walled tissue). In anatomy or histology it may describe blood vessels, ducts, or other tissues whose walls are notably delicate.

In everyday Dutch, dunwandig is not a frequent everyday descriptor; when it appears, it tends to be precise and technical rather than colloquial. The word can also be used in a broader sense to denote something insubstantial or lacking in mass or structure when used metaphorically, though this usage is less common and context-dependent.

Etymology traces the word to two Dutch components: dun meaning thin and wandig meaning wall-based or walled, with wand meaning wall. Related technical terms include celwand (cell wall) and references to tissue organization in histology and botany.

See also: celwand, weefsel, histologie, botanie, anatomy.