Xylem

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The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 4th Edition
  • n. The supporting and water-conducting tissue of vascular plants, consisting primarily of tracheids and vessels; woody tissue.
  • Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License
  • n. A vascular tissue in land plants primarily responsible for the distribution of water and minerals taken up by the roots; also the primary component of wood.
  • the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English
  • n. That portion of a fibrovascular bundle which has developed, or will develop, into wood cells; -- distinguished from phloëm.
  • The Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia
  • n. In botany, that part of a fibrovascular bundle which contains ducts or tracheids—that is, the woody part, as distinguished from the phloëm, or bast part. Compare phloëm. See protoxylem, leptoxylem.
  • WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
  • n. the woody part of plants: the supporting and water-conducting tissue, consisting primarily of tracheids and vessels
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