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phloem

/floh-em/US // ˈfloʊ ɛm //UK // (ˈfləʊɛm) //

韧皮部,韧带部,髓鞘,脉管膜

Definitions

n.名词 noun
  1. 1
    • : the part of a vascular bundle consisting of sieve tubes, companion cells, parenchyma, and fibers and forming the food-conducting tissue of a plant.

Examples

  • In some cases he seems to refer to the phloem and cambium by this name, and in other cases to the perimedullary zone.

  • These concentric rings of secondary xylem and phloem (fig. 9) afford a characteristic cycadean feature.

  • The tissue in question is marked by S, c, hb in the figure, and is called phloem or bast.

  • The browning in the vascular bundles appeared to be confined to the phloem tissue.

  • The central tissue (x) is called the woody tissue (xylem); the outer, the bast (phloem).