xylem
nounThe tissue of vascular plants that conducts water and minerals, provides support, and consists of tracheary elements and parenchyma cells. Woody tissue is made of secondary xylem produced by the vascular cambium.
nounIn botany, that part of a fibrovascular bundle which contains ducts or tracheids—that is, the woody part, as distinguished from the phloëm, or bast part. Compare
That portion of a fibrovascular bundle which has developed, or will develop, into wood cells; — distinguished from
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the woody part of plants: the supporting and water-conducting tissue, consisting primarily of tracheids and vessels