fibrovascular

[ fahy-broh-vas-kyuh-ler ]

/ ˌfaɪ broʊˈvæs kyə lər /

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adjective Botany.

composed of fibrous and conductive tissue, as in the vascular systems of higher plants: a fibrovascular bundle.

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Origin of fibrovascular

First recorded in 1835–45; fibro- + vascular

Words nearby fibrovascular

fibrous joint, fibrous membrane, fibrous root, fibrous tissue, fibrous tubercle, fibrovascular, fibrovascular bundle, fibula, fibular artery, fibularis brevis, fibularis longus

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How to use fibrovascular in a sentence

Collections of such tubes and supporting woody cells together make up what are known as fibrovascular bundles.
A Civic Biology|George William Hunter
There are also from two to four or five free closed fibrovascular bundles in the central pith.
Scientific American Supplement, No. 497, July 11, 1885|Various

British Dictionary definitions for fibrovascular

fibrovascular

/ (ˌfaɪbrəʊˈvæskjʊlə) /

adjective

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

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Scientific definitions for fibrovascular

fibrovascular

[ fī′brō-văs′kyə-lər ]

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