fibrovascular

[fahy-broh-vas-kyuh-ler]

adjective

Botany.

1. composed of fibrous and conductive tissue, as in the vascular systems of higher plants.

   a fibrovascular bundle.

fibrovascular

/ ˌfaɪbrəʊˈvæskjʊlə /

adjective

1. botany (of a vascular bundle) surrounded by sclerenchyma or within sclerenchymatous tissue

fibrovascular

1. Having fibrous tissue and vascular tissue, as in the woody tissue of plants. The veins of leaves are made of fibrovascular tissue.

Word History and Origins

Origin of fibrovascular¹

First recorded in 1835–45; fibro- + vascular

Example Sentences

Fibrovascular bundles are scattered through the compressed cells of the mesocarp.

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Foliage leaves in clusters of five, slender, 3-5 inches long, soft bluish-green, needle-shaped, 3-sided, mucronate, each with a single fibrovascular bundle, sessile.

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Foliage leaves in threes, 3-5 inches long, stout, stiff, dark yellowish-green, 3-sided, sharp-pointed, with two fibrovascular bundles; sessile; sheaths when young about ½ inch long.

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Leaves in twos, divergent from a short close sheath, about 1 inch in length and scarcely 1/12 inch in width, yellowish-green, numerous, stiff, curved or twisted, cross-section showing two fibrovascular bundles; outline narrowly linear; apex sharp-pointed; outer surface convex, inner concave or flat.

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In it we see the nuclear sheath, varying in width from one to three cells, and inclosing a number of crescent-shaped fibrovascular bundles, with their convexities toward the center and their horns toward the nuclear sheath.

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