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phloem

phlo·em [ flṓ èm ]


noun 
Definition:
 
nutrient-carrying tissue of plant: one of the two main types of tissue in vascular plants, which conducts synthesized nutrients to all parts of the plant. It is made up of sap-conducting tubes sieve tubes and the cells that lie alongside them companion cells, elongated cells of soft tissue parenchyma, and fibers.

[Late 19th century. < German< Greek phloos "bark"]
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