Phloem Definition

flōĕm
noun
The vascular tissue in vascular plants that conducts and distributes sugars and other dissolved foods from the places where the food is produced to the places where it is needed or stored.
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Noun

Singular:
phloem
Plural:
phloems

Origin of Phloem

  • First attested in 1872. From German Phlöem, from Ancient Greek φλόος (phloos, “husk, bark"), from φλέω (phleō, “I abound")

    From Wiktionary

  • German from Greek phloios bark bhleu- in Indo-European roots

    From American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition

Phloem Sentence Examples

  • The xylem and phloem also, rarely form perfectly continuous layers as they do in a solenostelic fern.

  • The phloem is generally Type.

  • Eventually the new phellogens reach the level of the secondary phloem, and are formed in the parenchyma of the latter, keeping pace in their inward march with the formation of fresh secondary phloem by the cambium.

  • The stem is monostelic, the arrangement of the xylem and phloem being collateral.

  • Finally, in the pinnae of the frond the centrifugal xylem may disappear, the protoxylem being now exarch in position and abutting on the phloem.

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