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41Plant sexuality — Close up of an Echinopsis spachiana flower, showing both carpels (only the styles and stigmas are visible) and stamens, making it a perfect flower. Plant sexuality covers the wide variety of sexual reproduction systems found across the plant… …
42Vascular cambium — NOTOC The vascular cambium is a lateral meristem in the vascular tissue of plants. The vascular cambium is the source of both the secondary xylem (inwards, towards the pith) and the secondary phloem (outwards), and is located between these… …
43secondary vascular tissue — Vascular tissue (xylem and phloem) formed by the vascular cambium during secondary growth in a vascular plant …
44Plant cuticle — Water beads on the waxy cuticle of kale leaves Anatomy of a leaf …
45vascular tissue — Bot. plant tissue consisting of ducts or vessels, that, in the higher plants, forms the system (vascular system) by which sap is conveyed through the plant. [1805 15] * * * …
46plant — [[t]plænt, plɑnt[/t]] n. 1) bio tax any member of the kingdom Plantae, comprising multicellular organisms that produce food from sunlight and inorganic matter by the process of photosynthesis and that have rigid cell walls containing cellulose,… …
47vascular — adjective Etymology: New Latin vascularis, from Latin vasculum small vessel, diminutive of vas Date: circa 1673 1. of or relating to a channel for the conveyance of a body fluid (as blood of an animal or sap of a plant) or to a system of such… …
48vascular bundle — Bot. a longitudinal arrangement of strands of xylem and phloem, and sometimes cambium, that forms the fluid conducting channels of vascular tissue in the rhizomes, stems, and leaf veins of vascular plants, the arrangement varying with the type of …
49plant tissue — noun the tissue of a plant (Freq. 1) • Hypernyms: ↑plant part, ↑plant structure • Hyponyms: ↑interstitial tissue, ↑fibrous tissue, ↑cortex, ↑medulla, ↑ …
50vascular bundle — Strand of vascular tissue in a plant; composed of xylem and phloem …
