VASCULAR TISSUE

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does vascular tissue mean? 

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

1. tissue that conducts water and nutrients through the plant body in higher plants

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

 Dictionary entry details 

• VASCULAR TISSUE (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

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

Classified under:

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)

 Context examples 

A benign neoplasm arising from vascular tissue usually of the skin.

(Benign Vascular Neoplasm, NCI Thesaurus)

Tiny vascular tissue projections from the membranous sac that surrounds the embryo.

(Chorionic Villus, NCI Thesaurus)

The vascular tissue is more abundant at the periphery of the tumor and contains fibrin thrombi.

(Angiolipoma, NCI Thesaurus)

Nonenzymatically glycosylated proteins or lipids which accumulate in vascular tissue during aging and at an accelerated rate in diabetes.

(Advanced Glycation End Product, NCI Thesaurus)

The study involved scanning cross-sections of bamboo vascular tissue, the tissue that transports fluid and nutrients within the plant.

(Visualising heat flow in bamboo could help design more energy-efficient and fire-safe buildings, University of Cambridge)