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What is a stroma?

What is a stroma? Here are some definitions.

Noun
  1. (anatomy) the tissue structure of an organ, etc., that serves to support it
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The bland fibrous stroma is infiltrated by mature lymphocytes and plasma cells.
The cell islands were further demarcated from the surrounding stroma by reticulin condensation around groups of cells.
Once inside the stroma, the transit sequence is cleaved off by the stromal processing peptidase.
The stroma of the papillary fronds consisted of loose fibrous tissue with abundant, thin-walled, congested blood vessels.
The outer trophoblast cells of the released blastocyst begin to invade the epithelium, burrowing into the underlying endometrial stroma.
The stroma consists of fatty tissue and ligaments surrounding the ducts and lobules, blood vessels and lymphatic vessels.

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