VASCULAR TISSUE

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Meaning:

Tissue that conducts water and nutrients through the plant body in higher plants

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Nouns denoting plants

Hypernyms ("vascular tissue" is a kind of...):

plant tissue (the tissue of a plant)

Hyponyms (each of the following is a kind of "vascular tissue"):

stele (the usually cylindrical central vascular portion of the axis of a vascular plant)

cambium (a formative one-cell layer of tissue between xylem and phloem in most vascular plants that is responsible for secondary growth)

fibrovascular bundle; vascular bundle; vascular strand (a unit strand of the vascular system in stems and leaves of higher plants consisting essentially of xylem and phloem)

medullary ray; vascular ray (a sheet of vascular tissue separating the vascular bundles)

xylem (the woody part of plants: the supporting and water-conducting tissue, consisting primarily of tracheids and vessels)

tracheid (long tubular cell peculiar to xylem)

bast; phloem ((botany) tissue that conducts synthesized food substances (e.g., from leaves) to parts where needed; consists primarily of sieve tubes)

sieve tube (tube formed by cells joined end-to-end through which nutrients flow in flowering plants and brown algae)

Holonyms ("vascular tissue" is a part of...):

vascular system (the vessels and tissue that carry or circulate fluids such as blood or lymph or sap through the body of an animal or plant)

tracheophyte; vascular plant (green plant having a vascular system: ferns, gymnosperms, angiosperms)