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Vascular bundle   /vˈæskjələr bˈəndəl/   Listen
Vascular bundle

noun
1.
A unit strand of the vascular system in stems and leaves of higher plants consisting essentially of xylem and phloem.  Synonyms: fibrovascular bundle, vascular strand.





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"Vascular bundle" Quotes from Famous Books



... the obliquity of the base of the leaf. In the other it would seem as if two distinct leaves emerged from the stem in juxtaposition. This is probably due to a lateral chorisis or subdivision of the primitive tubercle or growing point, followed by a like subdivision of the vascular bundle supplying it. There are certain varieties of elm that very generally present this anomaly on their rank, coarse, growing shoots. In these cases the new growths have the same direction as the primary one, but in other cases the supplementary production is exactly reversed in direction. ...
— Vegetable Teratology - An Account of the Principal Deviations from the Usual Construction of Plants • Maxwell T. Masters
... rosea: longitudinal section of a pulvinus on the summit of the petiole of a cotyledon, drawn with the camera lucida, magnified 75 times: p, p, petiole; f, fibro-vascular bundle: b, b, commencement of ...
— The Power of Movement in Plants • Charles Darwin


Words linked to "Vascular bundle" :   vascular tissue, vascular strand, vein, nervure, fibrovascular bundle


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