xylem fiber
1xylem fiber — noun : any of various fibers located in or associated with xylem and typically having an angular cross section and heavily lignified walls with prominent bordered pits compare phloem fiber …
2phloem fiber — noun : a fiber found in or associated with the phloem that is often commercially useful (as in flax) because of its great tensile strength and pliability and that differs from the xylem fiber in that its pits are usually small and simple called… …
3wood fiber — noun 1. : xylem fiber 2. : wood reduced to fine shreds …
4woody fiber — noun 1. : xylem 2. : a wood fiber …
5Wood — Wooden redirects here. For other uses, see Wooden (disambiguation). Heartwood redirects here. For other uses, see Heartwood (disambiguation). This article is about the substance. For small forests, see woodland. For wood as a commodity, see… …
6Flax — For other uses, see Flax (disambiguation). Flax Flax plant Scientific classification Kingdom …
7Flowering plant — Flowering plants Temporal range: Early Cretaceous Recent …
8wood — wood1 woodless, adj. /wood/, n. 1. the hard, fibrous substance composing most of the stem and branches of a tree or shrub, and lying beneath the bark; the xylem. 2. the trunks or main stems of trees as suitable for architectural and other… …
9Bast fibre — (fiber) or skin fibre is plant fibre collected from the phloem (the inner bark or the skin) or bast surrounding the stem of certain, mainly dicotyledonic, plants. They support the conductive cells of the phloem and provide strength to the stem.… …
10Wood — /wood/, n. 1. Grant, 1892 1942, U.S. painter. 2. Leonard, 1860 1927, U.S. military doctor and political administrator. * * * I Hard, fibrous material formed by the accumulation of secondary xylem produced by the vascular cambium. It is the… …
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