vascular tissue
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1. tissue that conducts water and nutrients through the plant body in higher plants (noun.plant)
| hypernym | : | plant tissue, |
| definition | : | the tissue of a plant (noun.plant) |
| hyponym | : | stele, |
| definition | : | the usually cylindrical central vascular portion of the axis of a vascular plant (noun.plant) |
| hyponym | : | cambium, |
| definition | : | a formative one-cell layer of tissue between xylem and phloem in most vascular plants that is responsible for secondary growth (noun.plant) |
| hyponym | : | xylem, |
| definition | : | the woody part of plants: the supporting and water-conducting tissue, consisting primarily of tracheids and vessels (noun.plant) |
| hyponym | : | tracheid, |
| definition | : | long tubular cell peculiar to xylem (noun.plant) |
| hyponym | : | bast, phloem, |
| definition | : | (botany) tissue that conducts synthesized food substances (e.g., from leaves) to parts where needed; consists primarily of sieve tubes (noun.plant) |
| hyponym | : | sieve tube, |
| definition | : | tube formed by cells joined end-to-end through which nutrients flow in flowering plants and brown algae (noun.plant) |
| part meronym | : | vascular system, |
| definition | : | the vessels and tissue that carry or circulate fluids such as blood or lymph or sap through the body of an animal or plant (noun.body) |
| part meronym | : | tracheophyte, vascular plant, |
| definition | : | green plant having a vascular system: ferns, gymnosperms, angiosperms (noun.plant) |
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