Phloem Definition

flōĕm
noun
The vascular tissue in vascular plants that conducts and distributes sugars and other dissolved foods from the places where the food is produced to the places where it is needed or stored.
Webster's New World
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Noun

Singular:
phloem
Plural:
phloems

Origin of Phloem

  • First attested in 1872. From German Phlöem, from Ancient Greek φλόος (phloos, “husk, bark"), from φλέω (phleō, “I abound")

    From Wiktionary

  • German from Greek phloios bark bhleu- in Indo-European roots

    From American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition

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