PHLOEM

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does phloem mean? 

• PHLOEM (noun)
  The noun PHLOEM has 1 sense:

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

  Familiarity information: PHLOEM used as a noun is very rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• PHLOEM (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

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

Classified under:

Nouns denoting plants

Synonyms:

bast; phloem

Hypernyms ("phloem" is a kind of...):

vascular tissue (tissue that conducts water and nutrients through the plant body in higher plants)

Meronyms (parts of "phloem"):

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

Domain category:

botany; phytology (the branch of biology that studies plants)