xylem

About 0.54 uses per million words.

Meaning

1. noun A vascular tissue in land plants primarily responsible for the distribution of water and minerals taken up by the roots; also the primary component of wood.

Similar words

mesarch woody wood sap hydraulic exarch endarch vascular tissue metaxylem wood parenchyma

Often followed by

and of vessels sap is elements cells in parenchyma

Word family

xylems