fibrovascular

American  

[fahy-broh-vas-kyuh-ler] / ˌfaɪ broʊˈvæs kyə lər /

adjective

Botany.

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

   a fibrovascular bundle.

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fibrovascular British  

/ ˌfaɪbrəʊˈvæskjʊlə /

adjective

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

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fibrovascular Scientific  

/ fī′brō-văs′kyə-lər /

1. 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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Etymology

Origin of fibrovascular

First recorded in 1835–45; fibro- + vascular

Example Sentences

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

From Project Gutenberg

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.

From Project Gutenberg

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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