eustele

[ yoo-steel, yoo-stee-lee ]

noun,plural eu·steles.Botany.
  1. an arrangement of the xylem and phloem in discrete strands, separated by areas of parenchymatous tissue.

Origin of eustele

1
First recorded in 1915–20; eu- + stele

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