Friday, June 10, 2016

Vocabulary Memory: Xylem; noun

Xy·lem
ˈzīləm/
noun Botany
noun: xylem
  1. the vascular tissue in plants that conducts water and dissolved nutrients upward from the root and also helps to form the woody element in the stem.
Origin
late 19th century: from Greek xulon ‘wood’ + the passive suffix -ēma .
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