Vascular

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The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 4th Edition
  • adj. Of, characterized by, or containing vessels that carry or circulate fluids, such as blood, lymph, or sap, through the body of an animal or plant.
  • Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License
  • adj. Of, pertaining to, or containing vessels that conduct or circulate fluids, such as blood, lymph, or sap, through the body of an animal or plant.
  • the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English
  • adj.
  • adj. Consisting of, or containing, vessels as an essential part of a structure; full of vessels; specifically (Bot.), pertaining to, or containing, special ducts, or tubes, for the circulation of sap.
  • adj. Operating by means of, or made up of an arrangement of, vessels
  • adj. Of or pertaining to the vessels of animal and vegetable bodies.
  • adj. Of or pertaining to the higher division of plants, that is, the phænogamous plants, all of which are vascular, in distinction from the cryptogams, which to a large extent are cellular only.
  • The Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia
  • In anatomy and zoology: Of or pertaining to vessels which convey fluids; of or pertaining to the conveyance or circulation of fluids, especially blood, lymph, and chyle; circulatory: as, the vascular system; a vascular function or action.
  • Containing vessels for the circulation of fluids; especially, well provided with small bloodvessels: as, muscle and bone are very vascular tissues; cartilage and cuticle are non-vascular; a vascular tumor.
  • In botany: Consisting of, relating to, or furnished with vessels or ducts: applied to the tissues of plants that are composed of or furnished with elongated cells or vessels for the circulation of sap.
  • Of or pertaining to the higher or phanerogamous plants, these uniformly containing more or less clearly defined vessels or duets.
  • See vasalium.
  • In botany, tissue composed of vessels or ducts; the fibrovascular system.
  • A tumor composed chiefly of an agglomeration of dilated terminal blood-vessels
  • A tumor which contains an abnormally large number of blood-vessels, bleeding profusely on the slightest injury.
  • Bleeding internal hemorrhoids.
  • WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
  • adj. of or relating to or having vessels that conduct and circulate fluids
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