PLANT TISSUE

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does plant tissue mean? 

• PLANT TISSUE (noun)
  The noun PLANT TISSUE has 1 sense:

1. the tissue of a plant

  Familiarity information: PLANT TISSUE used as a noun is very rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• PLANT TISSUE (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

The tissue of a plant

Classified under:

Nouns denoting plants

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

plant part; plant structure (any part of a plant or fungus)

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

interstitial tissue (tissue between the cells of a structure or part in plant or animal)

fibrous tissue (tissue consisting of or containing fibers in both animals and plants)

cortex (the tissue forming the outer layer of an organ or structure in plant or animal)

medulla (the inner part of an organ or structure in plant or animal)

perisperm (the nutritive tissue outside the sac containing the embryo in some seeds)

stroma (the dense colorless framework of a chloroplast)

stroma (a mass of fungal tissue that has spore-bearing structures embedded in it or on it)

flesh; pulp (a soft moist part of a fruit)

pith (soft spongelike central cylinder of the stems of most flowering plants)

parenchyma (the primary tissue of higher plants composed of thin-walled cells that remain capable of cell division even when mature; constitutes the greater part of leaves, roots, the pulp of fruits, and the pith of stems)

lignum (woody tissue)

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

pseudophloem (false phloem)

gall (abnormal swelling of plant tissue caused by insects or microorganisms or injury)

meristem (undifferentiated tissue from which new cells are formed, as at the tip of a stem or root)

 Context examples 

The swelling of plant tissue due to parasitic fungi, insect parasites, or other biological, chemical or mechanical injuries.

(Gall, Food and Drug Administration)

By combining environmentally-friendly plant tissue with perfusion-based decellularization, we have shown that there can be a sustainable solution for pre-vascularized tissue engineering scaffolds.

(Human Heart Cells Grown on Spinach Leaves, VOA News)

By exploiting the benign chemistry of plant tissue scaffolds, researchers wrote, we could address the many limitations and high costs of synthetic, complex composite materials.

(Human Heart Cells Grown on Spinach Leaves, VOA News)