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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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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 HunterThere are also from two to four or five free closed fibrovascular bundles in the central pith.
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.
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