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VASCULAR TISSUE
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I. (noun)
Sense 1
Meaning:
Tissue that conducts water and nutrients through the plant body in higher plants
Classified under:
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)
