ground tissue

Scientific  

1. The tissue of a plant other than the epidermis, periderm, and vascular tissues, consisting primarily of parenchyma, and (in lesser amounts) of collenchyma and sclerenchyma. Cortex and pith are subtypes of ground tissue.

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Example Sentences

The vascular bundles are rather numerous and irregularly scattered all over the ground tissue.

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Within the ground tissue are found a number of vascular bundles scattered more or less uniformly.

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In the vascular bundles of the ground tissue the bundle-sheath is rather prominent and the phloëm portion is well developed.

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Still inside, at some distance from the sclerenchymatous band, are seen vascular bundles forming a row and enclosing a large space of the ground tissue consisting of only parenchyma.

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Away from the ring lie a number of bundles forming a series disposed in two irregular rings around a broad portion of the ground tissue.

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